Make sure your child is safe
Make sure your little passengers are properly secured in an approved child car seat for their age and size before heading out on the road.
https://www.childcarseats.com.au/
Safety Tips
Lights flash on the back of buses to warn motorists they’re picking up or dropping off kids.
Bus flashing lights: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/road-users/drivers/be-bus-aware#Bus_flashing_lights
Revised Changes to Waste Facilities: Trial of Amended Operating Hours
Revised Changes to Waste Facilities: Trial of Amended Operating Hours
Due to increased potential for fires and fatigue in extreme high temperatures, waste facilities will open and close one (1) hour earlier commencing Saturday 8 February, with a trial period until Friday 14 March 2025.
Recent trialled hot weather times (implemented Saturday 1 February) proved to be too early and inconvenient for most people, necessitating these changes for which we ask your understanding.
For more information on waste facilities, please visit: www.wentworth.nsw.gov.au/health-environment/waste-management/waste-facilities
School Zones
Most school zones are in operation between 8am-9.30am and 2.30pm-4pm around schools Monday to Friday. Slow down and look out for children crossing. Please check signs for school zone hours.
Help keep our kids safe: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/community/schools/school-zones
Make sure your child is safe
Make sure you have the right car seat for your child’s age and size and you know how to use it correctly. https://www.childcarseats.com.au/
GoodSAM: Help keep them alive, while paramedics arrive
Cardiac arrest is often unexpected and affects up to 9,000 people in NSW every year.
For every minute a patient doesn’t get chest compressions, also known as Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), their chances of survival fall by 7-10%.
That’s where GoodSAM comes in, an app that helps save lives by empowering the community to respond quickly when someone nearby goes into cardiac arrest.
CPR is easy and safe. You don’t need a formal qualification, and a NSW Ambulance Emergency Medical Call Taker will be on the phone to help you.
If you are willing and able to perform CPR and are 18 or older, you can sign up to receive GoodSAM alerts when someone needs help.
How GoodSAM works:
- Up to three GoodSAM volunteers receive an alert, and an ambulance is dispatched.
- As a GoodSAM volunteer, you choose whether to accept or reject the alert.
- If you accept the alert, the app tells you where to find the patient and the location of any nearby Automated
External Defibrillators (AEDs), which you can collect on your way. - Go to the patient and start CPR until paramedics arrive and take over.
Signing up is easy. Register as a volunteer, download the app, and sign in.
Can you help to save a life? Every minute counts. Sign up to GoodSAM today.
For more information about volunteering with GoodSAM, visit NSW Ambulance – GoodSAM.
Child Safe Standards – School Holiday Programs
Wentworth Shire Council is committed to being a child safe organisation, promoting participation and empowerment of children and young people.
Council has created ways for children and young people to share their ideas on what they would like their future to look like, offering drawing sheets in holiday programs to draw and share their aspirations for the future and arranging consultation sessions for school children on our Community Strategic Plan.
You can read more about the Child Safe Standards on the Office of the Children’s Guardian website.