Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group

Our research on the effectiveness of home safety education and safety equipment provision has informed national policy on home safety assessment and provision of safety equipment including

• NICE Public Health guidance number 29 (Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among the under-15s) and NICE Public Health guidance number 30 (Preventing unintentional injuries among the under-15s in the home)

• NICE Evidence Update. Strategies to prevent unintentional injuries among children and young people aged under 15: Evidence Update 2013

• NICE Consideration of an update on two public health guidelines on preventing unintentional injuries among under 15s: Strategies (PH29) and Home (PH30). 2015

• Public Health England’s 2018 local authority guidance “Reducing unintentional injuries in and around the home among children under five years”

• England’s National Accident Prevention Strategy 2018.

• Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012. Our Children Deserve Better: prevention pays. 2013

Many home safety schemes cite our research as underpinning evidence. This includes Scotland’s National home Safety Equipment Scheme and regional and local schemes in England. Our research was also cited as underpinning a similar scheme in Ontario, Canada.

Our systematic reviews of parenting and home visiting interventions demonstrating significant reductions in child injuries, provide evidence underpinning Israel’s bedside injury prevention counselling programme and Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs in the USA in New Mexico and Utah.

Our research has informed home safety recommendations in international and national practitioner guides including:

• The European Child Safety Alliance “Child Safety Good Practice Guide” 2006

• Public Health England’s 2017 Practitioner Guide “Preventing unintentional injuries: A guide for all staff working with children under five years”

• Institute of Health Visiting Local Authority Child Public Health Briefing 2016: The Health Visiting contribution to Child Accident Prevention

• New Zealand’s Ministry of Health 2014 “Well Child Practitioner Handbook”

• The Canadian Injury Prevention Resource 2015

• US Children’s Safety Network Resource Guide for Preventing Unintentional Medication Poisoning in Children 2016

Our research has informed international strategies including those from the World Health Organisation, New Zealand, Australia and Europe.

• World Health Organisation's World Report on Child Injury Prevention

• Child Unintentional Deaths and Injuries in New Zealand and Prevention Strategies 2015

• New South Wales Child Safety Good Practice Guide: Good investments in unintentional child injury prevention and safety promotion 2016

• European Child Safety Alliance’s Child Safety Reference Frameworks for evidence-based injury prevention strategies 2014

We have used findings from our research to produce evidence-based resources for practitioners. These include:

As a result of our research we have produced:

• A 75-page Injury Prevention Briefing 2014 for practitioners, including evidence-based 11 home safety activities for use with families.

• The Injury Prevention Briefing has been endorsed by NICE linked to guidance PH29/30.

• A 32-page guide for commissioners of child health services in preventing childhood injuries 2016

An implementation toolkit for commissioners and providers of the FaME strength and balance exercise programme to inform its implementation 2019. The toolkit is available in the CLAHRC store

We developed and delivered child home safety training focussing on use of the Injury Prevention Briefing for 550 health and social care practitioners and family mentors in 4 sites in England (Nottingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Norwich) between 2014 and 2020.

Our Injury Prevention Briefing is also extensively cited in module 2 of the Institute of Health Visiting online accident prevention training package 2015