Biennial report of the deaths of children in New South Wales: 2018 and 2019 - Incorporating reviewable deaths of children

This report concerns the 989 children who died in New South Wales in calendar years 2018 and 2019. The report also includes information about longer term trends in child mortality in this state.

This is the second biennial report to combine the work of the CDRT (which the NSW Ombudsman convenes) with the Ombudsman’s separate responsibility for ‘reviewable’ deaths of children. A child’s death is ‘reviewable’ if it occurred in circumstances of, or suspicious of, abuse or neglect, or where the child had been living in care.

This report was tabled to the NSW Parliament on 23 August 2021. The version published on this website is dated 3 September. It contains minor corrections to errata in the original version. These include a small number of typographic and labelling issues. An errata notice was issued to the NSW Parliament separately.