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1. A specific strategic plan that implements the Accidental Injury Task Force’s recommendations for:

• ­ Priority areas (identified examples of inequality)
• ­ Headline Interventions
• ­ Child Accident Prevention Co-Ordinator

2. Further development of Local Strategic Partnerships involving PCTs, Councils and Local Organisations, coordinated by Public Health, to ensure that sustainable funding is provided and monitored so that projects can deliver the projects at key times throughout the year, Child Safety Week f

• Strategic lead by Newcastle Safeguarding Children Board
• Resurrection of Child Accident Prevention Strategy Group and the Child Accident Prevention Forum
• Implementation of Child Death Overview Panel (Working Together, 2006)
• Baseline set of hospital admissions caused by unintentional and deliberate injuries to children and young people. However, there is concern that figures for unintentional and deliberate injuries are being mixed and that each set of data should be considered separately.

• Newcastle upon Tyne was ranked 20th in the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2004, compared with 37th in 2007, suggesting the City has become relatively less deprived compared with other local authorities. Data from the Newcastle Neighbourhood Information Service (NNIS), measuring the vitality of neighbourhoods, shows that the improvement in our most deprived areas has made up some ground against city averages. But there remains a wide gap to the most affluent areas
• Accident levels have decreased overall across Newcastle upon Tyne.
  

Injury levels

Children will continue to be injured, seriously injured or die unnecessarily

Cost

Knowledge:

Children are particularly vulnerable to injury when they play, travel and sleep. The risk of injury, however, disproportionately affects some children more than others. Great variations occur in injury, mortality and morbidity which reflect a child’s age, gender socio-economic group, address and cultural ethnic group.

Your Homes Newcastle via Newcastle Furniture Service provides safety equipment to families with children under 2.

Safety Works provides Crucial Crew educational visits for school children.

Road Safety provides cycling proficiency training, school travel plans, school crossing patrols, speed bumps, speed cameras, road safety education and training

The Fire Service fits free smoke alarms and exchanges old chip pans for safe electric ones.

National

Every Child Matters: The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to:

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

Saving Lives: Our Healthier Nation – White Paper 1999

During November 2005 Newcastle Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership developed a series of workshops to inform the strategic partnership about children and young people’s priorities involving:

• Connexions Newcastle
• The Children's Society Voices Project
• Investing in Children
• Play and Youth Service
• Youth Voice
• Sure Start Armstrong

The findings of the workshops, as identified by the children involved, were as follows: