{"id":44015,"date":"2014-06-23T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=08afa7d9922dad35e9c93c0380776db7"},"modified":"2014-06-23T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:16:00","slug":"press-release-new-reports-aim-to-help-reduce-accidents-to-children-and-young-people-in-the-home-and-on-the-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44015","title":{"rendered":"Press release: New reports aim to help reduce accidents to children and young people in the home and on the roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Public Health England (<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>) today launches 2 new resources for local authorities on preventing accidents to children and young people in the home and on the road. The reports show whilst the number of children and young people killed or seriously injured continues to fall in England there are still significant numbers of deaths and emergency admissions from preventable causes.  On average each year between 2008 to 2012, 525 children and young people under 25 died and there were more than 53,700 admissions to hospital. <\/p>\n<p>The reports highlight actions local partners can take to reduce accidents including improving safety for children travelling to and from school and using existing services like health visitors and children\u2019s centres.  <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/reducing-unintentional-injuries-among-children-and-young-people\">Reducing unintentional injuries in and around the home among children under 5 Years<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/reducing-unintentional-injuries-among-children-and-young-people\">Reducing unintentional injuries on the roads among children and young people under 25<\/a> reports include an analysis of data between 2008 to 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Key findings from the reports include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>home injuries (under 5 years of age):\n<ul>\n<li>an average of 62 children died each year between 2008 and 2012<\/li>\n<li>these injuries result in an estimated 40,000 emergency hospital admissions among children of this age each year<\/li>\n<li>5 injury types should be prioritised for the under-fives: choking; suffocation and strangulation; falls; poisoning; burns and scalds; and drowning<\/li>\n<li>hospital admission rate for unintentional injuries among the under-fives is 45% higher for children from the most deprived areas compared with children from the least deprived<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Road traffic injuries (under 25 years of age)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there were 2,316 deaths recorded by the police among road users under the age of 25 years, an average of 463 under 25s each year<\/li>\n<li>there were 68,657 admissions to hospital as a result of road traffic injuries, an average of 13,731 each year<\/li>\n<li>in total there were 322,613 casualties of all severities recorded by the police, an average of 64,523 each year<\/li>\n<li>the rate of fatal and serious injuries for 10to 14 year olds was significantly greater for children from the 20% most deprived areas (37 per    100,000) compared with those from the most affluent areas (10 per 100,000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Ann Hoskins, Director for Children, Young People and Families, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>, said:   <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Whilst unintentional injuries are continuing to fall, there are still too many accidents taking place either in the home or on the roads, many of which are preventable. Local authorities and their partners, such as the NHS and emergency services, are already doing lots of good work in this area and these new resources can provide some extra support to help them to prevent more injuries and deaths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reports are published during Child Safety Week (23 to 29 June 2014), an annual campaign by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (<abbr title=\"Child Accident Prevention Trust\">CAPT<\/abbr>) to raise awareness of the risks of child accidents and how they can be prevented. The focus of the campaign is the simple actions parents and families can take every day to keep children safe. <\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Child Accident Prevention Trust\">CAPT<\/abbr>, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (<abbr title=\"Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents\">ROSPA<\/abbr>), were commissioned by <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> to undertake this work.<\/p>\n<p>Katrina Phillips, <abbr title=\"Child Accident Prevention Trust\">CAPT<\/abbr>\u2019s Chief Executive, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Children continue to be killed or disabled in accidents that can be prevented and the poorest children are at greatest risk. Local councils and their partners can achieve a step change for children, often at low cost, by prioritising the accidents that matter and mobilising existing services. That\u2019s why <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>\u2019s call to action is so welcome. We encourage <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> to support councils over the long-term, helping them to understand the benefits and savings that work on accident prevention achieves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Mullarkey, Chief Executive of <abbr title=\"Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents\">ROSPA<\/abbr>, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Accidents are the biggest killer of children and young people, wiping out hundreds of young lives each year and causing untold suffering to families across the country. But so many of these accidents could be prevented for very little money. Helping children to grow up safely should be a priority for all of us, and that\u2019s why we\u2019re pleased to have been involved in this new guidance for local authorities, which is where important decisions about public health spending are made. Public health has many success stories, but the challenge now is to replicate that success in accident prevention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as the national reports <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> is releasing figures which provide local authorities and other local partners with information on the number of unintentional injuries in the home and on the roads to help inform the work they do in this area.  <\/p>\n<h3 id=\"ends\">Ends<\/h3>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Public Health England\u2019s mission is to protect and improve the nation\u2019s health and to address inequalities through working with national and local government, the NHS, industry and the voluntary and community sector. <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> is an operationally autonomous executive agency of the Department of Health.\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/public-health-england\">www.gov.uk\/phe<\/a>  Follow us on Twitter @PHE_uk   <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/reducing-unintentional-injuries-among-children-and-young-people\">Reducing Unintentional Injuries in and Around the Home Among Children Under 5 Years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/reducing-unintentional-injuries-among-children-and-young-people\">Reducing Unintentional Injuries on the Roads Among Children and Young People under 25<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reports for each local authority are available with more local data on the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chimat.org.uk\/earlyyears\/injuries\">Child and Maternal (ChiMat) Health Intelligence Network website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Child Accident Prevention Trust\">CAPT<\/abbr> press office: <a href=\"mailto:pam.prentice@capt.org.uk\">pam.prentice@capt.org.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:amy.charters@capt.org.uk\">amy.charters@capt.org.uk<\/a>. Telephone: 020 7608 7361 including out of hours.<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents\">ROSPA<\/abbr> press office: <a href=\"mailto:pressoffice@rospa.com\">pressoffice@rospa.com<\/a>. Telephone: 0121 248 2135\/2134<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1906\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Public Health England Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Wellington House<br \/>\n<br \/>\n133-155 Waterloo Road<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLondon<\/span><br \/><span class=\"postal-code\">SE1 8UG<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:Karen.Roe@phe.gov.uk;%20phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk\">Karen.Roe@phe.gov.uk; phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Phone<\/span><br \/>\n              0207 654 8329\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours:<\/span><br \/>\n              020 8200 4400\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of children and young people killed or seriously injured continues to fall but still too many preventable accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44033,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44015\/revisions\/44033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}