Organisation: Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
Date uploaded: 17th September 2010
Date published/launched: September 2010
This paper, published jointly with seven organisations working in the child safety field, calls for a more co-ordinated approach to the safety of children and young people.
At the seminar, Professor Pritchard highlighted the disparity between the success in reducing child killing in the United Kingdom (30 years ago the UK was the fourth highest in the Western world; now it is the 3rd lowest) compared to the continuing cumulative death and injury toll arising from road traffic.
Road traffic accidents represent the biggest single cause of non-natural death among children and young people aged 1 to 19. They represent a particularly high risk for males aged 14 to 19.
The report says that tackling this imbalance requires a co-ordinated approach. This can be done through better application of policy such as the Total Place initiative, through more effective structures, through joint appointments for child safeguarding (as in Bradford) and specific interventions such as 20mph zones.
It concludes that reducing risk to them on the roads should be a key part of the child safeguarding agenda.
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Eleanor Besley