Media releases

• 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.