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The National Redress Scheme provides support to people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
The Scheme:
- acknowledges that many children were sexually abused in Australian institutions
- holds institutions accountable for this abuse, and
- helps people who have experienced institutional child sexual abuse gain access to counselling, a direct personal response, and a Redress payment.
The Scheme started on 1 July 2018 and will run for 10 years.
If you are deaf and/or find it hard hearing or speaking with people who use a phone, the National Relay Service (NRS) can help you.
- A call through the NRS lets you communicate with a hearing person who is using a phone even if you can’t hear or don’t use your voice.
- The NRS has specially trained staff called Relay Officers who help with every call.
- Depending on the type of call, a Relay Officer will change voice to text or text tovoice and AUSLAN to English or English to AUSLAN.
- Relay officers stay on the line throughout each call to help it go smoothly, but don’t change or get in the way of what is being said.
- Except for calls made through Video Relay, the NRS is available 24 Hours a day, every day.
- Depending on your hearing and speech, and equipment you have, you can choose from one or more relay call types.
The National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) is an independent statutory agency. Our role is to implement the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), which will support a better life for hundreds of thousands of Australians with a significant and permanent disability and their families and carers.
Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) is an independent, not-for-profit research institute based in Sydney, Australia. As a leader in brain and nervous system research, our goal is to prevent, treat and cure brain and nervous system diseases, disorders and injuries through medical research.
Some of the many aspects of neuroscience we explore include:
- Degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other dementias
- Mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
- Developmental disorders such as autism and Asperger’s syndrome
- Neurological disorders including obstructive sleep apnoea, nerve damage and chronic pain
- Falls and Balance in the elderly
- Rehabilitation after stroke and spinal cord injury
- Increasing the safety of car travel for children and adults.
The NSW Department of Education provides information on a wide variety of education and training issues including early childhood and finding a school in your area.
NSW Fair Trading is part of the Department of Customer Service whose role is to make doing business in NSW simple, accessible and fair for employees, consumers and industry while providing the best value for government.
The Office of Sport is the lead NSW Government agency for sport and active recreation. The Office of Sport aims to increase the levels of physical activity of the people of NSW by providing the leadership, policies, programs, funding and infrastructure necessary to enable higher rates of participation in sport and active recreation.
Empowering health professionals to continue delivering improved outcomes in health care and well-being for individuals, families and the community, by providing credible genetics and genomics resources and information, in collaboration with our clinical and research partner organisations.
The Centre for Genetics Education strives to be the trusted source of genetics and genomics information and resources for healthcare.
We are a division of the NSW Health Education & Training Institute (HETI), and are based at 1 Reserve Road in St Leonards, NSW, Australia.
NSW Health provides a range of information on infectious diseases.
At the levels measured in Australia, the effect of air pollution on any individual’s health is generally very small. However, because everyone is exposed to air pollution the total effect across the whole population can be substantial. In Australia, it is estimated that about 1% of the total burden of disease is due to air pollution.
In NSW calling 1300 066 055 will direct you to your local Public Health Unit.
A secure and safe supply of drinking water is fundamental to public health. The NSW Government has endorsed the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines 2011 (published by the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council).
The guidelines provide a solid foundation for assessing drinking water quality, by specifying health-based and aesthetic criteria as well as the philosophy of a ‘multiple barrier approach’ from catchment to tap, so to ensure safety of the water.
Factsheets for consumers about alcohol, other drugs and prescribed medicines.
There are more than 220 public hospitals and health services in NSW which provide free health care to Australian Citizens and permanent residents.
Vaccination is the best way to protect your children against serious preventable diseases such as polio, measles and whooping cough.
All vaccines given to Australian children are carefully tested to ensure they are safe and effective.
Find out the latest infectious disease alerts from NSW Health.
NSW Health provides information on a number of infectious diseases.
Find out about public health services in your area through the Local Health District portal.
Developed by South Eastern Sydney Local Health District, Yfoundations, and NSW Centre for Advancement of Adolescent Health, this resource is to inform young people aged 15 and over about their options to access healthcare.