Due to injury, at least 154,489 children and young people under the age of 19 were treated in Accident and Emergency departments across Wales in 2004. An estimated 14,990 of these children were under the age of five and injured in the home. A significant proportion of these injuries could have been prevented.
Children in Wales carried out a consultation on the strategy in 2008 and, based on the responses, published Working Towards a Child Safety Strategy for Wales in February. This document suggests a range of approaches to reach Welsh Assembly Government targets on child safety.
It aims to improve children's health and wellbeing by creating a safer urban environment and includes a number of recommendations relating to the different aspects of child accident prevention (see box). It also aims to reduce health inequalities, as children from the poorest families are at least three times more likely to be killed in accidents than those from the wealthiest families.
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