by Peter Stokes | 31 Jul, 2018 | e-news
Ms Meredith Dickson has been appointed as the Chair of the Child Death and Serious Injury Review Committee. Hon John Gardner MP, Minister for Education, announced the appointment of Ms Dickson in Parliament. Her appointment commenced on 9 July 2018, for a two year...
by Peter Stokes | 4 Jul, 2018 | Analysis
The South Australian Safe Infant Sleeping Standards are a comprehensive set of standards for placing infants less than 12 months old to sleep. These standards were developed to help reduce the occurrence of sudden unexpected deaths of infants during sleep. Several...
by Peter Stokes | 11 Apr, 2018 | Analysis
More children die in areas of South Australia where there are greater levels of social disadvantage. The Committee has documented this association over the past 12 years and published data showing this relationship in its 2016-17 Annual Report. In countries like...
by Peter Stokes | 31 Oct, 2017 | Annual Reports
In its twelfth Annual Report, the Committee has reported that the rate of child deaths has, on average, slowly decreased since 2005. However, higher rates of death are still occurring for children living in the State’s most disadvantaged areas and for Aboriginal...
by Peter Stokes | 31 Oct, 2016 | Statistics
The 2015 Child Deaths Additional Statistics is available for download.
