by Jago Van Dam | 2 Dec, 2022 | Analysis
In 2017–18 there were 60,400 children and young people living with disability in South Australia. This is 16.7% of the population of children and young people in South Australia and compares to 13.1% of children nationally who live with disability1. Children with...
by Jago Van Dam | 18 Nov, 2022 | Annual Reports, Statistics
This seventeenth annual report, presented to Parliament by the Child Death and Serious Injury Review Committee, provides a summary of the Committee’s data analyses, reviews of child deaths, and activities undertaken to prevent the death or serious injury of children...
by Jago Van Dam | 4 May, 2022 | Analysis
The intent of the Committee is to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and young people in South Australia. One of the ways it does this is by identifying opportunities for prevention and intervention through the systematic collection, analysis, and...
by Jago Van Dam | 24 Mar, 2022 | Analysis
Last year, the Committee reported that there was a particularly small number of neonatal deaths in 2019. The Committee noted that this reduction in neonatal deaths did not appear to be random; rather, it appeared to be attributable to fewer deaths associated with...
by Jago Van Dam | 19 Nov, 2021 | Annual Reports
The sixteenth annual report of the Child Death and Serious Injury Review Committee is now available to read in full. Of note in this report is the further decrease in the number and rate of child deaths. In 2019, the number of deaths of children and young people was...
