News

• Young people talk to the Commission about the built environment
  04 Sep 2008
  Commission staff went and spoke to some students from the Illawarra Sports High School about Child Friendly Community Indicators.

• Commissioner welcomes debate on Paid Parental Leave
  03 Sep 2008
  NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People Gillian Calvert has welcomed public debate on the benefits of Paid Parental Leave for Australian children.

• Young people talk with the Commission about the built environment
  28 Aug 2008
  Commission staff spoke at the NSW Community Relations Commission’s Youth Day Symposium.

• Children talk to the Commission about cultural facilities
  28 Aug 2008
  Commission staff spoke with children under five about cultural facilities.

• Young people talk to the Commission about the Built Environment
  19 Aug 2008
  Commission staff spoke with the Manly Youth Council about what makes communities child friendly.

• Australia fails to qualify in maternity leave stakes
  19 Aug 2008
  New analysis released today reveals Australia has failed to make it into the top twenty countries for paid maternity leave, falling behind everyone from the United Kingdom and New Zealand to Tanzania, China and Iran.

• NSW kids are invited to 'Be the Children's Commissioner for a day!'
  07 Aug 2008
  The Commission is asking people who live in NSW and are aged between 8 and 18 what they would do if they were the NSW Commissioner for day in a competition Be the Children’s Commissioner for a day!

• Commissioner visits Ellison Primary
  05 Aug 2008
  Commissioner Gillian Calvert and Commission staff Steve Robertson and Will de Monchaux went to Ellison Primary School in Springwood to meet with Year 5 and 6 students who are on the Commission’s Kids’ Advisory Panel.

• Parkes regional Cabinet meeting
  31 Jul 2008
  Several times a year, all Ministers in the NSW Government meet together outside Sydney to listen to people in rural communities. On Tuesday 29 July, a regional Cabinet meeting was held in Parkes - and kids were invited.

• Ten years of child deaths - where does NSW go from here?
  29 Jul 2008
  A new study that examines important information about child deaths from a ten year period was released today by the NSW Child Death Review Team.