keeping kids safe
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safer sleep for your baby - never sleep with your baby if you have been drinking or taking drugs...
-Aboriginal brochure
- safer sleep poster
-Aboriginal safer sleep poster -
Methadone and your child's safety
Advice for parents on storing methadone, safe sleeping and settling babies
- Methadone poster - Never shake a baby- many people do not realise that babies can die or suffer permanent brain injury if they are severely shaken...
- Kids in cars - on a typical Australian summer day, the temperature inside a parked car can be as much as 30-40 degrees hotter than the outside temperature...
- child safety - suggestions for the home, neighbourhood and when driving...
- toddler safety - toddlers need to have a safe environment. They are too young to behave safely...
- water safety – guidelines to make sure everyone plays safely in the water...
- farm safety -important guidelines if you live on or are visiting a farm...
- kids and poisons (NSW Health fact sheet)
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Spot It, Help Stop It - child abuse and neglect
Available in seventeen community languages: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Fijian, Korean, Macedonian, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Tongan, Turkish, and Vietnamese
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To report suspected child abuse or neglect, call the DoCS Helpline on 132 111 (24 hours/7 days)


