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PHE launches new resources, road deaths statistics and creating an 'avoidable injury strategy' | July 2014 Making the Link

1 July 2014
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RoSPA publishes ‘Road Safety and Public Health’ report

24 March 2014
RoSPA has published a report looking at the current level of integration of road safety with other public health activities. The report highlights examples of good practice, provides guidance to road safety officers and public health practitioners and catalogues ideas and concepts that could be used by different local authorities to help achieve their objectives.RecommendationsThe report makes...
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Public health and road safety, case studies and new blind cord standards | March 2014 Making the Link e-bulletin

20 March 2014
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Sign up for free Child Safety Week resources

20 March 2014
Sign up to our Child Safety Week 2014 email list to keep up-to-date with all the latest developments and get access to exclusive, free Safety Hero resources that you can use to promote child accident prevention in your local area.About Child Safety WeekThis year's Child Safety Week is just over three months away.
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New blind cord standards published

20 March 2014
On 28 February the British Standards Institution (BSI) published new standards for the sale and installation of blind cords making it illegal to sell or professionally install a window blind that does not meet the standards. The new standards also cover the safety devices that can be fitted to existing blinds with cords and chains.
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Accident prevention in the new early years profile

20 March 2014
The new early years profile from Public Health England/NHS England and ChiMat includes several references to accident prevention. Giving parents advice regarding the safe use of blinds and reducing the risk from blind cords are specifically mentioned in the infant mortality section of the guide (page 18).
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CAPT's work with Public Health England

20 March 2014
CAPT is currently working closely with Public Health England (PHE) on the content of a briefing to local authorities on reducing unintentional injuries for the under fives. This work is one of the strands of PHE’s Violence and Unintentional Programme. RoSPA are also part of the project – focusing on unintentional injuries on the roads for children and young people under the age of 25.
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March road safety seminar, developing a resource library and Child Safety Week 2014 | February 2014 Making the Link e-bulletin

26 February 2014
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Road safety seminar - what matters and what works

26 February 2014
Reducing the inequalities in child deaths and injuries on the roads 11 March 2014, 10:00am-3:45pm Ort House Conference Centre, London NW1 7NE Delegate fee: £48
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Urgent action needed to protect children from hair straighteners burns

26 February 2014
CAPT is supporting the work of the Electrical Safety Council (ESC) with a nationwide campaign about the dangers of hair straighteners.Our campaign aims to raise awareness of the danger among parents and lobby manufacturers and retailers to do more to protect children from burns.
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