Nearly 40 organisations have now joined CSEC, forming a broad membership that is crucial in developing consensus on a range of issues - one of the coalition's aims and an area in which the new co-ordinating team will come into its own.
The co-ordinators will be driving the implementation of many of CSEC's values, and key goals include increasing opportunities for children to practise skills that develop risk competency, and researching provision of safety education. The co-ordinators have the independence to develop projects within their fields of experience, but each will also focus their efforts on the top five areas of unintended injury identified by the World Health Organisation: road traffic accidents; drowning; poisoning; thermal accidents such as burns and scalds; and trips and falls.
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