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care putting children at risk
Sydney Morning Herald
Adele Horin - December 12, 2008
www.smh.com.au/news/national/australian-child-care-dangerous-un/2008/12/11/1228585025653.html
AUSTRALIA'S
early childhood services are among the worst in the developed
world, according to a UNICEF report that warns of the risk
of placing children in care before the age of one.
Among
25 developed countries Australia ranks third last, meeting
only two of 10 benchmarks considered essential to protect
children in their formative early years.
See
Unicef Report Card at:-
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc8_eng.pdf
Special
Commission of Inquiry
Acute Care Services in NSW Public Hospitals
Mr Peter Garling SC
 Of
interest to AWCH members is the Garling Report - Special
Commission of Inquiry Acute Care Services in NSW Public
Hospitals. There are 139 recommendations.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/
Special_Projects/ll_splprojects.nsf/
pages/acsi_finalreport
Volume
1 Chapter 5 Babies, children and young people. Child &
adolescent health recommendations are 9, 10 & 11.
http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/
Special_Projects/ll_splprojects.nsf/
vwFiles/E_Volume1.pdf/$file/E_Volume1.pdf
2008
AMA Indigenous Report Card
27 November 2008
http://www.ama.com.au/node/4335
The AMA released its 2008 Report Card Ending the Cycle of
Vulnerability: The Health of Indigenous Children on the
27th of November 2008 at Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal
Health Service in Canberra.
In the
2008 Report Card, the AMA describes the significant gaps
in health that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous
children in Australia. The Report Card concludes that addressing
the Indigenous child health gap is not just a matter of
child-specific health checks and follow-up interventions.
It is a long-term matter of comprehensively addressing the
broader contextual factors and intergenerational health
influences in Indigenous children’s lives. This cannot
be achieved without the engagement and participation of
Indigenous communities and Indigenous health organisations
in the development of health policy and programs.
Report
calls for programs that divert young people from incarceration
Friday, 14 November 2008
www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/publications/
preventing_crime/index.html
 A
new report released by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma calls for the ‘skilling
up’ of existing services that work with Indigenous
young people with cognitive or mental health issues, in
an effort to halt their slide into the juvenile justice
system.
Releasing
the report, Preventing crime and promoting rights for Indigenous
young people with cognitive disabilities and mental health
issues, Commissioner Calma outlined the disturbing fact
that Indigenous young people in juvenile justice were at
least four times more likely to have an intellectual disability
than the general population.
National
Children’s Vision Screening Project
Keyes M., Wright, M. - October 2008
http://www.rch.org.au/emplibrary/ccch/
DiscussPaper_VisionScreenProject.pdf
This
Discussion Paper has been prepared by the Centre for Community
Child Health’s (CCCH) National Children’s Vision
Screening Project Team, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
The paper sets out recommendations for the future requirements
of children’s vision screening in Australia.
The
underlying rationale for any form of screening is that it
should identify health problems of importance that are detectable
and treatable. While cost should not be an immediate barrier
to implementation of a screening program, it is an important
consideration that must be weighed up against the consequences
to health and wellbeing that may result if screening was
not conducted. The
costs of implementing other methods to detect the health
problem (such as comprehensive, individual examinations)
should also be weighed against the cost of screening.
Chronic
Conditions Self Management 2008-2010 Project
National Consumer Representative and Stakeholder
Planning
Workshop Report
Robin
Grindrod, AWCH Board Member, represented AWCH at the National
Planning Workshop in August for the Chronic Conditions Self
Management 2008-10 Project.
AWCH
would like to thank Robin for her keen and enthusiastic
involvement and in providing such an important contribution
to this project by being the single voice for children and
young people at the workshop - a representation that was
well received by the group.
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