This policy articulates the reporting obligations on the department, its employees and all other personnel who work in a school, or college or other departmental educational institution. The policy defines and provides guidelines on reporting obligtions and procedures, harm and exploitation, legal protection and support to notifiers.

This research involved a series of face-to-face interviews with Compulsory Drug Treatment Program (CDTP) participants.

Two new measures of offence seriousness in NSW are assessed in this Crime and Justice Bulletin. The first measure of offence seriousness, Median Sentence Ranking (MSR), was constructed by identifying the median sentence actually imposed in each Australian Standard Offence Classification group. The data used for this purpose consisted of cases finalised in the NSW...

Levels of psycho-stimulant (e.g. amphetamine or cocaine) use are comparatively low amongst the general population of drinkers, reports this recent Crime and Justice Bureau Brief. Following reports that some of the violence on licensed premises might be attributable to the use of drugs such as amphetamines and cocaine, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and...

New figures indicate that use of narcotics (e.g. heroin) and cocaine is increasing, according to this Crime and Justice Statistics Bureau Brief. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research examined trends in arrests for narcotics and cocaine possession and overdoses on narcotics and cocaine between 1999 and 2009. The number of arrests for narcotics...