Kidsafe NSW promotes child injury prevention and education in an effort to preserve and protect the lives of our children.

Welcome to Kidsafe NSW

Proudly announcing - Kidsafe Family Day Care Safety Guidelines

Now available!

The Family Day Care Safety Guidelines (7th Ed.) is an excellent resource to assist in maintaining a safe environment for children.

Please click here to download the Family Day Care Safety Guidelines.

National Burns Awareness Month (NBAM) June 2020

It's National Burns Awareness Month (NBAM)! Join us to drive greater awareness amongst the Australian community of burns prevention and the correct first aid treatment for burns.

Click here for more information about NBAM 2020!

Visit our Burns and Scalds Prevention page for top tips to keep your family safe from burns and scald injuries.

COVID-19

A message from the Kidsafe NSW Team

As the COVID-19 situation evolves, we have adapted the way we work so that we can continue to support you and the NSW community.

The Kidsafe Demonstration House and Playspace is currently closed and some services are limited until further notice.

Please continue to call us if you have queries, require information, or resources. You can either email, leave a message and we will check the messages and get back to you, or make a further call to the mobile numbers provided on our voicemail.

Kidsafe NSW Services:

Review of Plans - available

Playground Inspections – available

Online Resources and Purchases - available

Accredited Training & Community Education – If you would like to discuss “in-house” training or presentations for your organisation, please contact Kidsafe NSW by email or by phone (02) 9845 0899. Note: Kidsafe NSW has a COVID 19 business plan in place to ensure safety of trainers and participants.

Kidsafe NSW will continue to monitor updates from Australian health authorities and respond by ensuring our team operates in a safe and responsible way.

Feel free to contact us if you have any queries or concerns - call the respective Kidsafe Units or (02) 9845 0899 or email

Also, visit NSW Health for specific information including translated fact sheets in many community languages https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/diseases/Pages/covid-19-resources.aspx

Take care, remain safe and ‘stop the spread!’

Active & Safe: Aboriginal child injury prevention guidelines

The Active & Safe: Preventing Unintentional Injury to Aboriginal Children and Young People guidelines promote activity, safety and community strengths to address indigenous child injury and recognise that effective injury prevention for Aboriginal children requires appropriate engagement with Aboriginal communities and involves many groups working collaboratively to ensure coordination, leadership and sustained commitment.

Funded by NSW Health and developed by collaborators from the Australian Health Services Research Institute, the George Institute for Global Health, the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Kidsafe NSW, and the Australasian Injury Prevention Network, Active & Safe is the result of extensive research undertaken in 2016 with policymakers, injury researchers, practitioners and Aboriginal community members in NSW.

Australian research shows that Aboriginal children have consistently higher rates of injury than non-Aboriginal children. Mortality rates for Australian Indigenous children from injury-related causes are almost five times higher and hospitalisation rates two times higher than the rates for non-Indigenous children.

Click here for the Active & Safe: Aboriginal child injury prevention guidelines

Child Safety Good Practice Guide

Kidsafe NSW, along with Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network and NeuRA, are proud to announce the launch of the Child Safety Good Practice Guide! Kidsafe was created in response to the increasing number of children being unintentionally injured at home, on roads and at play. Over the past ten years, these types of injuries have remained consistent.

In response, NSW child safety and health experts have joined forces to develop this Australian-first resource. This Guide has given us better understanding of where good progress has been made as well as highlighted areas of investment for the future.

Click here for the full report.

On this website you will find information about current news and events, resources and information sheets to help keep children safe.

Child safety is an important issue and we hope this website will help spread the word to make Australia a safer place for children.

Safe Barriers Save Lives

Child Kidsafe's 'Safe Barriers Save Lives' Backyard Pool Sasfety campaign calls on all pool and spa owners to check the safety of their pool or spa barriers and set their home pool defence, to assist in keeping children safe in and around water. Click here for more information.

Hot Drinks Burn Like Fire

Kidsafe NSW acknowledges Aboriginal people as the first inhabitants of New South Wales and the traditional custodians of the Country on which we live, learn, work and play. We pay respects to their Elders past, present and future.