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By Rachel Lawler
RoSPA asks practitioners to help prevent accidents
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Oct 12, 2018By Rachel LawlerChildcare practitioners are being asked to help prevent accidents at home, as part of a new nationwide strategy from the (RoSPA).
RoSPA said that under fives are one of the age groups most vulnerable to accidents, especially in the home and that they are over-represented in injury statistics.
Accidents in the home
RoSPA鈥檚 priorities in preventing accidents in the home included threats to breathing, falls, poisoning, drowning and burns/scalds.
It suggests that early years practitioners are well-placed to support parents and carers in making their homes safer, by referral to home safety assessments and equipment schemes.
Youngest children
Between 2013-2016, the top cause of deaths from accidents for children under four-years-old was threats to breathing 鈥 such as choking, suffocation or strangulation.
Errol Taylor, chief executive at RoSPA, said: 鈥淪erious accidental injury to children is a significant health issue that often gets overlooked as a public health issue 鈥 in England each year, an average of 132 children aged 0-14 die and more than 100,000 are admitted to hospital 鈥 but this doesn鈥檛 have to happen.
鈥淔or under fives, the home is the key area of concern from an accidental point of view, and it is that there is support and training for practitioners working with young families.鈥
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