Media releases

• 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.

• 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.