This event is free for ACRS members and $20 for non-members. Learn more about ACRS Membership here.
Members of the Queensland Chapter of the Australasian College of Road Safety are invited to attend the 2025 Annual General Meeting being held online.
Queensland’s Child Death Register shows 123 children have died in road crashes over the last 20 years. Data analysis done as part of the child death prevention work found concerning trends around the use of child seats and seatbelts in Queensland.
Fiona Boorman and Naomi Paulin of the Queensland Family & Child Commission will present on “Seatbelt and child restraint use in children 0–12 years: Road crash child passenger deaths Queensland 2004–2023” and discuss the need for education campaigns designed to increase child seat and seatbelt use in Queensland, including improving access to affordable child restraints and better education within remote parts of Queensland and in First Nations communities.
This will be followed by the Annual General Meeting, including election of committee members for vacant seats. Following the election, a brief meeting of the Chapter Committee will be held. The event will be online only.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please complete and submit the nomination form.
One you have registered, a Zoom meeting link will be sent to the email address you used to register.
Presenters:
Fiona Boorman is the Manager Child Death Prevention at the Queensland Family and Child Commission (the Commission) and leads the team responsible for maintaining the Queensland Child Death Register, producing the Annual Report: Deaths of children and young people Queensland, and the child death prevention research activities under the Safer Pathways Through Childhood Framework. An important part of their work is identifying risk factors, trends and emerging safety hazards which can be used to inform prevention initiatives and awareness campaigns. They partner with researchers on child death prevention projects and can provide detailed Queensland child death data to researchers and organisations at no cost.
Naomi Paulin is the Principal Research and Special Projects Officer with the Child Death Prevention team at the Queensland Family and Child Commission (the Commission). She has extensive experience in child protection; most recently reporting on the complex interplay of factors that influence child and family safety, and wellbeing. Naomi is currently responsible for progressing activities under the Safer Pathways Through Childhood annual action plan. In this role, Naomi undertakes research on issues that impact child deaths and works in partnership with researchers and other organisations with an interest in child death prevention and awareness to identify system challenges and to help reduce child mortality.