Authors Michael Watson, Caroline Mulvaney, Clare Timblin, Jane Stewart, Carol Coupland, Toity Deave, Mike Hayes and Denise Kendrick
Published by Health Education Journal, February 2016
Summary
The researchers surveyed 485 children’s centre managers for their paper Missed Opportunities to Keep Children Safe? National Survey of Injury Prevention Activities of Children’s Centres. Almost all respondents – 98.2 per cent – agreed or strongly agreed children’s centres can be effective in preventing accidents.
More children’s centres did not have a written child injury prevention strategy than those that did – 47.4 per cent compared with 42.3 per cent. The majority of respondents did not know if their local authority or health service commissioner had a child injury prevention strategy.
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