News

• November current awareness bulletin
  20 Nov 2009
  This month's bulletin includes recent research into factors associated with youths' educational outcomes as well as a report on online counselling, therapy and dispute resolution in relation to family relationship services.

• Raising Children Network to include the middle childhood and early teen years
  20 Nov 2009
  The Australian Government funded website Raising Children is expanding to cover information about raising kids in middle childhood and early teen years. Have your say on the topics that you would like to see covered.

• Predicting the future for Australian children: 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
  20 Nov 2009
  What critical factors determine whether a child succeeds or fails in life? Is it ethnicity, income, access to education, the role of parents, health status or even postcode?

• Minister announces Acting Commissioner
  16 Nov 2009
  Minister for Youth, Graham West, has announced the appointment of Jan McClelland as Acting Commissioner for Children and Young People effective from 13 November 2009.

• Statewide information sessions - Keep them safe
  05 Nov 2009
  Information sessions are being held throughout November and early December at over 550 locations across NSW for all key mandatory reporters from government and non-government organisations.

• October KidsPoll results: Voting age
  04 Nov 2009
  51 voted YES for being able to vote at 16, 35 voted NO. The number who voted don't care? Two!

• September KidsPoll results: Things I do to help the environment
  04 Nov 2009
  The thing that most voters nominated they did to help the environment was ‘Put recycling in the recycling bin’ with 27 out of the 37 votes strongly agreeing.

• August KidsPoll results: The toughest thing about being homeless
  04 Nov 2009
  The toughest thing about being homeless that voters nominated was ‘Finding a safe place to sleep’ with almost half of the votes.

• 11 year old Meg spends day as Commissioner
  03 Nov 2009
  Eleven-year-old Meg Thompson from Millthorpe in central west NSW spent Universal Children’s Day on 28 October as the Children's Commissioner.

• October current awareness bulletin
  30 Oct 2009
  This month's bulletin includes articles on the development and nature of physical aggression in children and young people.