Referred: 6 Apr 2000

Date	Name of Document
01/05/2001	The First Steps ... Review of the First Annual Report of the Commission for Children and Young People, for the 1999-2000 Financial Year
01/02/2002	Learning to Run ... Review of the Second Annual Report of the Commission for Children and Young People for the 2000-2001 Financial Year

Date	Name of Document
27/11/2002	Public Hearing

This is a completed inquiry. The contacts below are historical only.

• Primary contact: Ian Faulks, phone (02) 9230 2161, children@parliament.nsw.gov.au OR ian.faulks@parliament.nsw.gov.au
• Committee Manager: Ian Faulks, phone 9230 2161, children@parliament.nsw.gov.au
• Project Officer: Cheryl Samuels, phone 9230 3439, children@parliament.nsw.gov.au
• Address for written correspondence:

  Committee on Children and Young People
  Parliament House
  Macquarie St
  Sydney NSW 2000
  Fax: (02) 9230 3052
  

Resolution passed and message to the Assembly 6 April 2000, 2nd Session, Minutes No. 32, pp 371–2.

The Commission for Children and Young People Act 1998
s.28 (1) lists the functions of the CommitteeThe Parliamentary Joint Committee has the following functions under this Act:

1. to monitor and review the exercise by the Commission of its functions;
2. to report to both Houses of Parliament, with such comments as it thinks fit, on any matter appertaining to the Commission or connected with the exercise of its functions to which, in the opinion of the Joint Committee, the attention of Parliament should be directed;
3. to examine each annual or other report of the Commission and report to both Houses of Parliament on any matter appearing in, or arising out of, any such report;
4. to examine trends and changes in services and issues affecting chiuldren, and report to both Houses of Parliament any changes that the Joint Committee thinks desirable to the functions and procedures of the Commission;
5. to inquire into any question in connection with the Committee's functions which is referred to it by both Houses of Parliament, and report to both Houses on that question.

It is important to note that the Committee on Children and Young People cannot investigate a matter relating to particular conduct (s.28 (2)).