The Interim Commissioner for Children and Young People is Ros Cornish
Ros has been asked to be the Interim Commissioner for Children and Young people for a short period of time.
Ros knows heaps about the rights and wellbeing of children and young people and has lots of experience and knowledge that will help her in her job.
Ros is a mother, grandmother, and she loves gardening and bushwalking.
Ros also loves chatting with young Tasmanians to hear how life’s going and what’s important to them.
You can email Ros at childcomm@childcomm.tas.gov.au or call her team on (03) 6166 1366 to share your thoughts about any issues affecting young Tasmanians.
The Commissioner’s job is to stand up for the rights and wellbeing of all Tasmanian children and young people aged under 18 and to influence decision-makers who can affect all your lives.
They make sure that laws and policies that affect you are fair and that decision-makers keep the promises they make to all children and young people living in Tasmania. In particular, they keep an eye out for groups of young Tasmanians who find it hard to have a say, including those in the youth justice system and in out-of-home care, and help them to be heard.
Although the Commissioner can normally only speak up for young Tasmanians as a group, they do have a special role to speak up for the rights of individual children and young people in youth detention.