Child Accident Prevention

Launch of the European Report on Child Safety in Wales

24 countries in Europe have been involved in a project to reduce child accidents and injuries. Through the project each country is given a "Child Safety Report Card" which rates their performance in a range of areas, such as passenger safety, fall prevention, burn and scald prevention and so on, as well as an overall score compared to the other countries taking part. Wales’ overall score ranked it 21^st out of the 24. The documents are available to download below:

Comparison of Results for Wales, England and Scotland

Child Safety: Preventing Accidental and Unintentional Injury

Every year in Wales, over 145,000 children and young people attend Accident & Emergency Departments because of an unintentional injury, equivalent to around 400 children every single day.

Children in Wales aims to reduce this toll and our work addresses accident prevention in all locations, including at home, on the road, around water and at school. We support and work closely with members and practitioners across Wales to reduce the number of children and young people injured through accidents every year.

Children in Wales’ work includes:

The development and implementation of the first Child Accident Prevention Strategy for Wales
Working alongside the Welsh Assembly Government to promote the prevention of child accidents and unintentional injury
The promotion of research on injury prevention
The promotion of data collection and injury surveillance
Co-ordinating a Wales-wide effective accident prevention network
Improving national and local accident prevention work
The promotion of evidence based good practice
Involving children and young people
Providing advice, information, training and resources to practitioners in the field

For further information, please click on the links below or contact our Development Officer for Child Safety, Karen McFarlane: Karen.Mcfarlane@childreninwales.org.uk

Karen's role is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government through the Health Challenge Wales voluntary sector grant scheme.

News

Children in Wales has welcomed two reports, issued by the World Health Organisation on 10 December 2008, highlighting the enormous loss to society caused by childhood injuries. Related downloads: