Making the Link master classes on child accident prevention

CAPT is running a series of free, half-day master classes, funded by the Department for Education in London on 29 and 30 March 2012 on how to foster partnership working to help keep children safe from serious accidental injury. CAPT’S Making the Link project is part of the Safe Network, the National Safeguarding Unit for the third sector in England, and it’s jointly managed by the NSPCC, Children England and the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT).

The four interactive, half-day events take place in London on 29 and 30 March 2012. Each event will address a different topic related to joined-up working to help keep children safe from serious accidental injury.

The aim of these events is to:

• Bring senior stakeholders in the statutory and voluntary and community sectors (VCS) together to share learning on effective practice.
• Develop and share knowledge between academics, commissioners and practitioners.
• Discuss the impact of new local strategic and delivery arrangements for public health.
• Influence commissioning and delivery of programmes in child accident prevention.
• Increase the role of the VCS in commissioning and partnership working.

Target audience

• Commissioners of services for children in the health sector and local authorities.
• Senior professionals within VCS organisations with an interest in responding to invitations to tender to provide services to statutory organisations, including accident prevention.
• Practitioners involved in all aspects of accident prevention, including early intervention, home safety, road safety, housing, public health, etc.

Master class format

The format of these events will be a ‘BBC Question Time’ style forum, with a panel of invited experts and an audience of senior level practitioners, commissioners and VCS stakeholders. Audience members will be given the opportunity to ask questions of panel members and peers (in advance and on the day), and the event will facilitate networking between all participants. A buffet lunch will be provided each day between the morning and afternoon sessions. 

The following topics have been confirmed. Participants may attend one or more events in the series. 

Thursday 29 March, 10am – 12.30pm

1.         Child accident prevention and the new public health strategic agenda                          

Issues include: Integration of CAP into JSNAs, HWB agendas, CCG commissioning, Health Visitors objectives and work plans, VCS providers, etc. 

Thursday 29 March, 1.30pm – 4pm

2.         Safeguarding/neglect/child accident prevention                                                     

Issues include: LSCBs positioning child accident prevention within the neglect agenda and ‘early help’ in the Munro Review, VCS support for vulnerable families, etc.

Friday 30 March, 10am – 12.30pm

3.         Child poverty, inequality and accident prevention                                                  

Issues include: Child poverty & inequality, accident rates and prevention – child accident prevention within child poverty strategies, roles of statutory and VCS organisations, etc.

Friday 30 March, 1.30pm – 4pm

4.         A safe start for children                                                                                                                      

Issues include: Preventing serious accidental injury in early years, implementing cross cutting child health and safeguarding programmes, Marmot, partnership working, etc.

View the flyer and booking form for this event.

Location

The master classes are taking place in London at:

Ort House
126 Albert Street
London
NW1 7NE

To book your place on these events, please complete and return your booking form to Kin Lam at kin@freestream.co.uk

or fax back to 020 7608 3674.