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Thanks for your interest in the publications of the NSW Commission for Children and Young People. Please make your selection from the list below, and complete the online form.
Participation kit
TPS - All aBoard!
(596 KB PDF Document)
This guide looks at why and how organisations can involve children and young people on boards and committees. It has lots of tips about recruitment, roles and responsibilities, induction, supporting young people before and between meetings, making meetings fun, and keeping young people interested.
All aBoard!
also has practical templates for relevant forms and materials.
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$22.00 each (incl. GST)
TPS - Checking the Scoreboard
(125 KB PDF Document)
Ever felt like it’s time to do a participation “stocktake”? This resource will help you get feedback from both staff and children and young people involved with your organisation about what’s working and where participation activities could be added to or improved. Made up of a facilitator’s guide and separate worksheets for staff and children and young people, this resource will help you come up with an action plan to breathe new life into your participation activities.
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$23.00 each (incl. GST)
TPS - Conferences and Events
(925 KB PDF Document)
This guide helps you run events that make space for children and young people’s participation. It has lots of ideas for helping kids play a meaningful role before, during and after events so that everyone benefits from their participation. There are stories from young people about their experiences and a big section of more than 90 activities and games you can use to help both you and the young people get the most out of their participation.
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$32.00 each (incl. GST)
TPS - Count me in!
(1.66 MB PDF Document)
This guide looks at how organisations can involve children and young people in research. It has lots of information and tips on how to get children and young people participating in all stages of the research process, from defining the research question and developing a methodology to disseminating the findings. It also looks at the main principles and methods used to increase children and young people’s participation in research and contains practical examples of consent information and forms for children and young people.
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TPS - Meeting together deciding together
(851 KB PDF Document)
Meeting together–deciding together is all about involving children and young people in meetings where decisions are made that affect their lives, such as case-planning meetings. This module will help you to help a young person prepare for a meeting, participate during the meeting and debrief afterwards. It has ‘kid-friendly’ templates you can use for invitations, agendas and minutes and lots of other useful information.
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TPS - Sharing our Journey
(3.51 MB PDF Document)
This module charts the 'learning road' travelled by the Commission from the Participation Kit's beginnings six years ago.
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TPS - Sharing the Stage
(402 KB PDF Document)
Sharing the Stage explores the idea of participation and looks at the five key elements that need to be in place for children and young people to participate effectively in decision-making. You’ll find lots of practical ideas and examples of what’s worked for other organisations.
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Ask The Children
ATC - Children at work
(242 KB PDF Document)
We surveyed 10,999 kids in Years 7 to 10 from 22 different schools in NSW. The kids answered questions their work, conditions, satisfaction and quality of life, injuries, harassment at work, and what they like and dislike about working.
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ATC - Education
(2.41 MB PDF Document)
Following the release of the NSW Department of Education and Training’s Futures Project document,
Excellence and Innovation,
we spoke with over 100 children and young people to get their ideas on ways to make school and TAFEs better for the future.
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ATC - Immigration detention
(115 KB PDF Document)
We spoke with the children as part of our submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity's Inquiry into children in immigration detention. All the children we spoke with have been recognised under Australian and international law as refugees. They spent an average of 140 days in detention during 2000 and 2001.
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ATC - Issues important to kids
(72 KB PDF Document)
We asked 430 young people to identify issues important to them in four key areas of their lives – family, school, work and their local community.
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ATC - Kids speak out about mobile phones
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We asked more than 1,500 children and young people in Years 6 and 9 about how mobile phones fit into their lives.
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ATC - Kids talk about getting help
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In a joint initiative, the Commission and Kids Help Line interviewed 195 children and young people to find out whom they approach for support when they have problems, and the factors that encourage or deter them from seeking help.
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ATC - Prescription and over the counter medications
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How do children and young people understand prescriptions and directions when medication is prescribed? What do they understand about the effects of over the counter medications? What about performance enhancing substances? How do they feel about their experiences with their doctor, pharmacist, teacher or their sports coach when taking medication?
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ATC - Young drivers
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We spoke with more than 130 young people around New South Wales (NSW) about their views on driving and road safety. This helped us develop our response to the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority’s discussion paper
Improving safety for young drivers
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ATC - Young people talk alcohol
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In the lead-up to the 2003 NSW Summit on Alcohol Abuse, we spoke with nearly 150 young people about their experiences with alcohol and sought their ideas on reducing alcohol-related harm to young people.
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Annual reports
Annual Report - 2006
(1.97 MB PDF Document)
Our Annual Report for the 2005-2006 financial year.
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Big Feedback - 2005
(4.68 MB PDF Document)
Our annual report written and designed for high-school age kids.
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Big Feedback - 2006
(5.76 MB PDF Document)
Our annual report written and designed for high-school age kids.
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Little Feedback - 2005
(879 KB PDF Document)
Our annual report written and designed for primary-school age kids.
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Little Feedback - 2006
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Our annual report written and designed for primary-school age kids.
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Child Death Review Team
CDRT Full Report - 2004
(3.00 MB PDF Document)
This report looks at the deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years in NSW from January to December 2004.
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CDRT Full Report - 2005
(3.73 MB PDF Document)
This report looks at the deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years in NSW from January to December 2005.
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CDRT Full Report - 2006
(3.78 MB PDF Document)
This report looks at the deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years in NSW from January to December 2006.
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CDRT Summary Report - 2004
(109 KB PDF Document)
This summary report looks at the deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years in NSW from January to December 2004.
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Fatal Assault - Summary
(98 KB PDF Document)
Summary of the Fatal Assault of Children and Young People Report.
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Fatal assault and neglect of children and young people
(559 KB PDF Document)
A study of all deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years from assault and neglect in NSW over a three-year period (1 July 1999 to 30 June 2002).
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Fatal Assault of Children and Young People
(1.88 MB PDF Document)
The aim of the research project was to establish a social and demographic profile of the population of all child deaths identified by the Child Death Review Team due to assault in the period January 1996 to July 1999.
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Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy - Summary - 2005
(878 KB PDF Document)
A summary of the full report
Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy - the New South Wales Experience.
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Suicide and risk-taking - Summary
(96 KB PDF Document)
Summary of the Suicide and Risk-taking Deaths of Children and Young People report.
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Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people
(843 KB PDF Document)
A study of all deaths of children and young people aged 12 to 17 years in NSW by suicide or risk-taking over a five-year period (January 1996 to December 2000).
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Children's issues reports
A Head Start for Australia: An Early Years Framework
(970 KB PDF Document)
A blue-print that sets out what we can do - individually and as a community - to give all Australian kids a great 'head start' in life.
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ATC - Children at work
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We surveyed 10,999 kids in Years 7 to 10 from 22 different schools in NSW. The kids answered questions their work, conditions, satisfaction and quality of life, injuries, harassment at work, and what they like and dislike about working.
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Children & Young People with no-one to turn to Inquiry
(3.50 MB PDF Document)
When the Commission was established, the NSW Government announced that the Commission would examine ‘the best means of assisting children who have no-one to turn to’. This commitment was made in the light of growing community concern about vulnerable children and young people in NSW and in Australia as a whole.
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Children at Work - 2005
(9.32 MB PDF Document)
In the first Australian study of its kind, the Commission surveyed 11,000 high school students in years 7 to 10 about their experiences at work. The research shows there is considerable diversity to kids’ work, from babysitting and working in retail outlets to making deliveries, teaching and helping out on the family farm.
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Fatal Assault - Summary
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Summary of the Fatal Assault of Children and Young People Report.
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Fatal assault and neglect of children and young people
(559 KB PDF Document)
A study of all deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years from assault and neglect in NSW over a three-year period (1 July 1999 to 30 June 2002).
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Fatal Assault of Children and Young People
(1.88 MB PDF Document)
The aim of the research project was to establish a social and demographic profile of the population of all child deaths identified by the Child Death Review Team due to assault in the period January 1996 to July 1999.
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Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy - Summary - 2005
(878 KB PDF Document)
A summary of the full report
Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy - the New South Wales Experience.
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Suicide and risk-taking - Summary
(96 KB PDF Document)
Summary of the Suicide and Risk-taking Deaths of Children and Young People report.
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Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people
(843 KB PDF Document)
A study of all deaths of children and young people aged 12 to 17 years in NSW by suicide or risk-taking over a five-year period (January 1996 to December 2000).
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Summary - A Head Start for Australia
(444 KB PDF Document)
Summary of the full report
A Head Start for Australia - An Early Years Framework.
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Summary - What about the kids?
(186 KB PDF Document)
A summary of the full report
What about the kids?
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What about the kids?
(916 KB PDF Document)
Policy improvements for supporting the care and education of all babies and young children.
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