Web resource:	http://kids.nsw.gov.au/uploads/documents/CDRT_annual_2004_complete.pdf
Type:	Report
Title:	NSW Child Death Review Team : annual report January – December 2004
Authors:	Winter, Virginia Sankey, Melissa
Keywords:	Interagency work;Child protection;Policy;Homicide
Year:	2005
Publisher:	NSW Commission for Children and Young People, Surry Hills
Notes:	This 2004 Annual Report of the NSW Child Death Review Team examines the deaths of children and young people aged 0 to 17 years in NSW registered between January and December 2004. Key findings include: a total of 545 deaths of children and young people; males accounted for 57.1% of these deaths (311) and females accounted for 42.9% (234 deaths); the overall death rate is falling; the infant mortality rate is falling; death rate due to external causes is falling; the difference in death rates between males and females has narrowed; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people are over-represented; remote areas have higher rates of death (more than 3 times greater and consistent with findings since 2000); children in areas of greatest socio-economic disadvantage are over-represented; and vulnerable children are over-represented in external causes of death. Most common causes of death include: diseases and morbid conditions (370 deaths or 67.9%), conditions in the perinatal period were the most common primary cause with the majority of these deaths within the first week of life; followed by external causes of death (117 or 21.5%) with the most common external causes of death as transport incidents, drowning and suicide. Rates for fatal assault have been stable since 1996 ranging between 0.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2002 and 1.1 deaths in 1997, 1999 and 2003. In 2004, 8 children and young people died as a result of fatal assault (5 females and 3 males). These deaths will be reviewed by the NSW Ombudsman. Among the deaths of children and young people from fatal assault, none were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and none lived in areas associated with the most disadvantage, with one from one of the most advantaged areas. Fatal assault categories are identified as: non-accidental injury, family breakdown, parents affected by a mental illness and killings of teenagers. The deaths of 3 children were consistent with non-accidental injury. One incident resulting in the deaths of 2 siblings was consistent with family breakdown. The perpetrator was the children’s biological father. He killed his 2 children and then himself. The Team is concerned with the high death rate in the Nowra-Bomaderry area and will conduct a review.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/19267
Physical description:	135 p.
Appears in Collections:	Reports

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