All resources tagged with 'children (5-10)'

The Department for Health (DH) has launched the Health Visitor Implementation Plan.

The plan aims to introduce 4,200 new health visitors to the profession by 2015 and stresses the strong link between children’s centres and health visitors in health improvement initiatives such as child accident prevention.

For those staff working in other areas such as maternity services, primary care and early years services, the increased numbers of health visitors are good opportunities to review and strengthen partnership working arrangements.

The Allen review into early intervention has made a strong case for early intervention to continue to play a crucial part in children’s development.

Among his recommendations to retain 19 of the current early intervention programmes is that the proposed health and well-being boards create integrated early intervention approaches which share best practice.

• Read the Allen review

The interim, second report of the Munro review - a major review looking into child protection - has been published.

The report, entitled The Child’s Journey, aims to improve child protection and the review has worked with five authorities to improve the system.

Recommendations in the report include strengthening the role of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards and that the role of Director of Children’s Services continues to be the key place for accountability for child protection.

The final report and recommendations are due in April 2011.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a national set of statistics. These show road casualties reported to the police in Great Britain for the third quarter of 2010.

For the year ending September 2010, an estimated 7,931 child pedestrians under 16 were killed or seriously injured, down 3% compared with the previous 12 months.

The latest statistics for attendances at accident and emergency (A&E) departments have been published on the NHS Information Centre site.

The statistics cover 15.6 million records over the period from April 2009-March 2010.

Of the 15.6 million attendances recorded, 2.2 million (14%) were children aged 0-9 and 2.1 million (13%) were children and young people aged 10-19.

Unfortunately, there is very limited recording of the reason for attendance at A&E and no breakdown by age and cause.

A strategic review of the fire and rescue service – Fire Futures - has been published by the Communities and Local Government Department.

Brake – the road safety charity - have announced the launch of Road Safety Week to take place on 21-27 November 2011.

Some of the best road safety responses come about when communities recognise the important role they can play. We’re asking road safety professionals to complete a short online survey about their experiences in engaging community-based organisations to help tackle road safety.

The National Children's Bureau (NCB) Research Centre is finalising a rapid research review on unintentional injuries in childhood.