Commissioner's blog

• Let's get kids more involved in television
  12 Dec 2008
  The long standing debate in the community over how much ‘exposure’ children should have to television, the amount of content and quality of children’s programs has recently been overtaken by a bold new concept.

• Fools rush in ... but caution is needed for child protection changes
  27 Nov 2008
  The more than one hundred recommendations contained in the report by Justice James Wood’s Inquiry into Child Protection Services in NSW are thoughtful and wide ranging.

• Who cares what kids think?
  14 Nov 2008
  The idea of children and young people’s participation and right to “have a say” in the political, economic and social structures of society has been gaining momentum in the last few decades.

• NSW babies clap their hands for better childcare ratios
  03 Nov 2008
  Most of us are familiar with the children’s nursery rhyme “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands…”! And we are all loudly clapping the NSW Government's decision to increase the ratio of long day care centre carers for babies and toddlers to 1:4.

• Why 'celebrate' kids and poverty?
  20 Oct 2008
  The United Nation’s International Day of Anti-Poverty took place on Friday 17th October. The event is the culmination of the numerous activities, events and fundraising that takes place across Australia to mark Poverty Week.