Media releases

• New findings revealed about fatal child assault deaths
  14 Jun 2002
  Teenage fatalities, fatal non-accidental injury, children killed by parents affected by a mental illness and children killed following family breakdown have emerged as the four distinct types of fatal child assault in a research report by the NSW Child Death Review Team.

• A better deal for Australia's kids with a national Children's Commissioner
  10 May 2002
  

  The NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ms Gillian Calvert, today welcomed the Federal Opposition's commitment to establishing a national Children's Commissioner and Australia-wide standards on protecting kids from abuse.

• Young people outline changes they want made to mobile phone services
  13 Dec 2001
  

  An industry and dealer code of conduct, plain English contracts and access to independent information were today announced by Ms Gillian Calvert, Commissioner for Children and Young People, as the key changes young people want made in the telecommunications industry to help them get a better deal from mobile phone companies.

• Code of conduct recommended as key way mobile phone companies can improve services to young people
  23 Nov 2001
  

  At a successful forum hosted yesterday by the Commission for Children and Young People and the National Children's and Youth Law Centre, young people outlined to telecommunication representatives the issues facing young people owning mobile phones.

• Domestic violence, drugs and alcohol key risk factors in child abuse deaths
  31 Oct 2001
  

  A report into the deaths of children in NSW today found that 21 children who died of abuse, neglect or suspicious circumstances, came from high risk families and all their families had contact with a combination of health, police or welfare agencies before their deaths.