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The purpose of the Child Death Review Team (the Team) is to help prevent or reduce the number of deaths in New South Wales of children and young people aged 0-17 years. One of the ways the Team does this is by monitoring and reporting on trends and patterns in the deaths of children and young people in New South Wales.

This report forms part of a larger exploratory study of trends in the deaths of children and young people aged 0-17 years in New South Wales in the ten year period 1996–2005 and the factors that might have influenced those trends. This is the first time the Team has provided information of this type. Previous reports of the Team have provided a description of the deaths that occurred in the reporting year, or a description of the deaths from a particular cause over a number of years.

Statistical standards appropriate for an exploratory investigation have been used. While the statistical significance of particular findings is noted in the report, the level of this significance should not be confused with the importance or relevance of the findings.

The Team prepared this report on deaths of children from assault before the remainder of the study so that the information would be available for consideration by the Special Commission of Inquiry into Child Protection Services in New South Wales.

The report can be downloaded from the link below.

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