GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS SCRUTINY OF CHILD DEATHS
Source: New South Wales. Minister for Community Services. Media Release.
"The NSW Government today welcomed the NSW Ombudsman’s Reviewable Child Deaths Report for 2007 as an important contribution to strengthening the NSW child protection system. On 15 October last year Community Services Minister Linda Burney told a Parliamentary Estimates Committee that the increase in the number of reviewable child deaths in 2007, outlined in today’s report, was disturbing and that her concern was shared by the whole community. "Let’s not forget that behind each cold statistic is a human life and a grieving family," she said."