Accident Prevention Amongst Children and Young People - A Priority Review

Enabling children to stay safe is a top priority for the Government. Government actions to reduce childhood deaths and injuries were set out in the ‘Staying Safe: Action Plan’, published in February 2008.

This document fulfils a commitment within the Action Plan to carry out a Priority Review of local area accident prevention (in England), which will consider a small number of local areas in detail to see what accident prevention work is undertaken and which agencies are involved, and make a number of recommendations about how accident prevention work might be improved.

There is already a lot of activity at local level to reduce unintentional injury and all local areas contribute to National Indicators in relation to preventing injuries and accidents. The findings and recommendations of this report concentrate on where more needs to be done to support delivery.