News

• Commissioner for Children and Young People to visit Taree
  03 Oct 2006
  Listening to the concerns of young people in Taree will be the focus of a visit this week by NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ms Gillian Calvert.

• What about the kids - better care solutions for the under fives?
  22 Jun 2006
  Recommendations for a comprehensive and national approach to the way that care is provided for children under five years, were released today in a new discussion paper.

• Parliament seeks young advice on built environments
  13 Jun 2006
  The future development of the built environment needs to be influenced by kids’ views and experiences through all stages of the planning and design processes or kids will become increasingly alienated from their own communities, said the NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People Gillian Calvert

• Kids Commissioner to visit Orange
  03 Apr 2006
  Local children and young people - and those who work with them - will be sharing their views about how the community can support kids and their families on Tuesday, 4 April 2006.

• The good, bad and untold - kids tell it like it is
  03 Apr 2006
  Nearly 80 young people will open up and share their unique experiences about what it’s like living in regional NSW as part of a special cross country video link up for Youth Week.
  

• NSW death rates down for children and young people
  31 Oct 2005
  The death rate for children and young people in NSW has been steadily decreasing since 1996, according to the latest report from the Child Death Review Team (CDRT), released today.

• Major Australian Report About Children At Work
  20 Jun 2005
  A groundbreaking report released today by the NSW Commission for Children and Young People reveals new information about the working experiences of 11,000 high school students aged between 12 and 16 years.

• NSW kids reveal what they think about schools
  06 Jun 2005
  A new resource by the NSW Commission for Children and Young People ‘Ask the children about education’ has revealed what more than 100 kids think about schooling.

• 4WD danger to kids goes further than school areas
  18 May 2005
  NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People and Convenor of the NSW Child Death Review Team (CDRT) Ms Gillian Calvert said today that while preventing dangers from 4WD vehicles to young children near schools is important, we must maintain our focus on residential areas.

• New research on sudden unexpected infant deaths
  07 Feb 2005
  Research released today has found that nearly 90% of the sudden unexpected infant deaths that occurred in the three years to 2002 might have been prevented if information about safe sleeping and smoking had been acted on.