3 May 2012
Two new publications and the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum provide significant opportunities for partnership working on child safety.
1 May 2012
Get involved and make an impactThe last year has seen growing emphasis on local commissioning of child accident prevention, but growing pressure too on resources and budgets. Child Safety Week offers a great opportunity to raise families’ awareness, forge partnerships and put child accident prevention on the local agenda.
19 April 2012
The Making the Link project is here to help everyone who works to prevent unintentional injury to children and young people in England.We use the website to highlight:
4 April 2012
New injury profiles from the South West Public Health Observatory (SWPHO) show huge variation in the rates of people killed and admitted to hospital due to injury between different local authorities.The new injury profiles are published as an online data tool launched by SWPHO on behalf of Public Health Observatories in England.Key findings included:
4 April 2012
The national Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) has launched the latest Local Authority Child Health Profiles which provide a snapshot of child health and well-being for each council in England.These annual profiles - produced as short, easy-to-read, PDFs aim to help those working in local authorities, the NHS and the voluntary sector improve outcomes for children and tackle health...
29 March 2012
Next month CAPT is publishing its Accidents and child development publication which is an essential resource for all practitioners working to prevent childhood accidents.It sets out the following:
29 March 2012
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the new statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (EYFS).This sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well, and are kept healthy and safe.Early years providers play key roles in promoting accident prevention messages and delivering accident prevention work.
28 March 2012
The theme for this year’s Child Safety Week - CAPT's flagship community safety campaign - is Small steps to safety.
6 March 2012
There are still places left for our Making the Link road safety seminar and master classes taking place in March.
5 March 2012
We've redesigned the Making the Link website to make it easier to find the tools, policy and news updates to help you in your child accident prevention work. We’ve made the following changes:
The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is the UK's leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.