Media releases

• 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.

• Nominations open for young people to be heard
  16 Sep 2009
  Nominations are now open for the NSW Commission for Children and Young People’s 2010 Young People’s Reference Group (YPRG).

• Getting Indigenous youth out of the criminal justice system
  31 Aug 2009
  With Indigenous young people now 21 times more likely to be detained in custody than their non-Indigenous counterparts, a national conference focusing on the issue will be opened in Sydney tomorrow by Attorney-General Robert McClelland.

• Youth homelessness forum a success
  10 Aug 2009
  Young people gathered in Sydney last week to find solutions to youth homelessness and develop ideas to present to the NSW Government to help solve one of the state’s biggest issues, said Acting Minister for Youth Linda Burney.