Partnership working
January 2013
Are you looking to start new partnerships? Want to find out how to make the most of your current connections?
The links below will show you how to build a successful partnership, and give you an overview of key agencies who you might want to make contact with.
One of the most useful resources is "Better safe than sorry", a joint study by the Audit Commission and the Healthcare Commission into preventing unintentional injury through partnership working.
Click on the links below to find out more:
Identifying partnership opportunities
The Making the wider connections section of our Advocating Child Safety resource explores the connections that people working in child accident prevention can make with others engaged with the safety, health and wellbeing of children, to make a greater impact on shared agendas. It includes an overview of partnership opportunities in the following areas:
- Parents, families and schools
- Housing, home safety and the built environment
- Road safety
- The emergency services
- Young people
- Community-based networks and organisations
Key individuals
Dedicated partnerships and knowledge sharing are key factors for success in accidental injury prevention, but some organisations have chosen to go one step further by creating individual ‘injury prevention’ roles. Find out more:
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.