4 October 2011
A campaign in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly on preventing deaths from nappy sacks has been nominated for this year’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) awards.
4 October 2011
Delivering child accident prevention work in your area saves lives and saves money.
The costs to the NHS of child accidents are huge. We know that in 2006-07, emergency hospital admissions due to childhood accidents cost the NHS £131 million. Visits to accident and emergency departments cost a further £146 million a year.
8 September 2011
A new report has been published on children and social capital urging government to address the social capital of communities in order to keep children safe and improve their well-being.
Social capital is the connections and trust between people in communities and it allows individuals and communities to act individually and collectively to improve their situation and to access resources.
The...
8 September 2011
A new health visitor taskforce has been created to support the government's plan to create 4,200 new health visitors by 2015.
The taskforce, which met for the first time in July, will provide support and leadership to ensure that the new health visiting service model will be universally adopted by 2015. It is chaired by Dame Elizabeth Fradd, an independent health service adviser and registered...
8 September 2011
The Department of Health (DH) has revised its guide on the health harms resulting from drug misuse.
The publication called 'A summary of the health harms of drugs' includes information on accidental deaths caused by fires from cigarettes and deaths involving alcohol.
The guide is aimed at drug and treatment professionals and provides the most up to date scientific evidence on the health harms...
7 September 2011
CAPT are supporting a campaign opposing cuts to discretionary school transport.
The cuts, which are particularly hitting rural areas, mean that children are being put at risk of serious injury or worse if their parents are not able to take them to school.
In East Sussex, these cuts will mean children will have to walk two and a half miles to school, often in the dark, with unlit roads with 60mph...
7 September 2011
CAPT in collaboration with the Learning for Public Health Network in the West Midlands is running a two day course on child accident prevention on 30 November and 7 December in Birmingham.
The course, which is accredited for continuing professional development (CPD), is aimed at anyone with an involvement in public health, including staff in local authorities. It is designed to:
18 August 2011
Each year over 2,000 under-5s are admitted to hospital because of burns and scalds. The Treatment for burns injuries is extremely expensive, and can run to hundreds of thousands of pounds for a severe injury. A day in a specialist burns unit costs three times as much as a bed on a normal ward.
Worldwide, burns are a major health problem. There are 195,000 deaths from fire-related burns every year...
18 August 2011
The Local Government (LG) Group has produced guidance on fire safety for purpose-built flats.
Aimed at housing professionals, the guidance doesn't introduce any new standards or regulations but clarifies a number of complex issues around risk assessment and fire safety management.
The guidance complements existing fire safety guidance produced by the Department for Communities and Local...
11 August 2011
Do you work in or around child accident prevention and will be working on or alongside the new health and wellbeing boards (HWBs) within the new public health arena?
We'd like to share information amongst Making the Link users by publishing best practice and ideas about how to deliver effective child accident prevention strategies and programmes via the HWBs.
You may currently be the children's...
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.