News

• NSW death rates for children and young people falling
  02 Nov 2004
  The latest report from the Child Death Review Team shows that the death rate for children and young people in NSW has been steadily decreasing since 1999.

• A Great Head Start for Growing Up Australians
  09 Mar 2004
  A Head Start for Australia: An Early Years Framework sets out nine key areas of young children's lives where action can be taken by governments, agencies, business, parents and others that will have significant and long term benefits for all Australians.

• New findings about child assault and neglect deaths
  30 Oct 2003
  The findings of the Fatal Assault and Neglect of Children and Young People report show that for fatal neglect the inadequate supervision of 1-4 year olds has emerged as a key issue while for fatal assault, it is young children living in families with criminal and domestic violence histories.

• New research findings to help prevent suicide by children
  23 Jan 2003
  Research released today by the Child Death Review Team on the deaths of young people aged 12 to 17 years over a five-year period in New South Wales has revealed new information to help understand and prevent suicide and fatal risk-taking behaviour.

• Young Indigenous people in NSW over-represented in report of child deaths
  05 Nov 2002
  Young Indigenous people in NSW are tragically prominent in a report released last week that looks into the deaths of children and young people in NSW during 2001-2002.

• Young people in regional NSW over-represented in report of child deaths
  04 Nov 2002
  

  Young people in rural and regional areas of NSW are tragically prominent in a report released last week that looks into the deaths of children and young people in NSW during 2001-2.

• Rural kids die at a greater rate than city kids
  30 Oct 2002
  

  A new report reveals that kids from rural and regional NSW die at a greater rate than their urban counterparts and are more at risk of dying in transport incidents, drowning, and abuse and neglect than children in more populous areas.

• Inquiry into kids with no-one to turn to calls for more support for parents, child care workers and teachers
  23 Oct 2002
  

  Over 50% of kids feel cut off from help at some time - research for the Commission for Children and Young People's Inquiry into the best means of assisting children and young people with no-one to turn to has found.

• New findings revealed about fatal child assault deaths
  14 Jun 2002
  Teenage fatalities, fatal non-accidental injury, children killed by parents affected by a mental illness and children killed following family breakdown have emerged as the four distinct types of fatal child assault in a research report by the NSW Child Death Review Team.

• A better deal for Australia's kids with a national Children's Commissioner
  10 May 2002
  

  The NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ms Gillian Calvert, today welcomed the Federal Opposition's commitment to establishing a national Children's Commissioner and Australia-wide standards on protecting kids from abuse.