News

• Children and young people with disability talk about what makes them happy and safe
  28 Apr 2009
  Commission staff spent a day and half at the Eastern Respite and Recreation’s vacation care centre talking with kids about what makes them safe and happy.

• Change for kids may take time but it still counts
  27 Apr 2009
  In our first ten years the Commission has found that achieving change for children and young people doesn’t always follow a direct path to success.

• Australians clearly want Paid Parental Leave in next budget
  09 Apr 2009
  A new poll to be released today has found very strong and broad community support for a national paid parental leave scheme to be funded by the Federal government in their next budget, due in May.

• The hidden world of kids and mobile phones
  06 Apr 2009
  Mobile phones play a central and largely positive role in children and young people’s lives and help them to be independent, organise their daily lives, support their relationships, provide entertainment and make them feel safer, new research has found.

• Youth Advisory Council Announcement
  03 Apr 2009
  The NSW Minister for Youth, Graham West MP, has appointed 12 young people from across NSW to the 2009 Youth Advisory Council (YAC). 

• April current awareness bulletin
  01 Apr 2009
  This month’s bulletin includes links to bullying resources and to the report ‘Keep them safe: a shared approach to child well-being’, the NSW Government’s response to the recommendations made by Justice Wood in his report of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW which he handed down on 24 November 2008.

• Buddy group meeting on the built environment
  31 Mar 2009
  Commission staff spoke with students from Sydney Girls High about the built environment and about human rights.

• The hard work starts for the Minto Kids Council
  25 Mar 2009
  The Commission attended the second meeting of the Minto Kids Council where the kids started planning for the first ever ‘Minto’s got Talent’ quest scheduled for late 2009.

• Commissioner talks with kids in Armidale
  20 Mar 2009
  The NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Gillian Calvert, visited Armidale on Thursday 19 March to talk with kids about issues they face in the local area.

• Youth council report on cyberbullying released
  02 Mar 2009
  The NSW Youth Advisory Council has made recommendations to the Minister for Youth, the Hon. Graham West on strategies to build awareness of cyberbullying and its affects on young people.