The Child Accident Prevention Trust is the UK’s leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents. Our activities include:
Spreading knowledge and changing behaviour:
Providing advice and information to parents and carers through our website.
Distributing family-friendly safety resources – such as our acclaimed picture-based booklets for parents with poor literacy – through staff working in their local communities. We dispatched three-quarters of a million resources last year.
Reaching four million children, young people, parents and grandparents UK-wide through our flagship community education campaign, Child Safety Week. More about Child Safety Week…
Taking our knowledge and skills to the frontline of family support. We have 16,000 active community contacts UK-wide benefiting from:
Fact sheets, good practice guides and action-planning toolkits. More about our resources for professionals…
Monthly email bulletins packed with the latest safety information and advice. More about our email bulletins…
Training and events, with over 550 staff and managers benefiting from our courses, seminars and conferences last year. More about our training and events…
Acting as a centre of specialist knowledge on child accident prevention, by providing:
Specialist support and guidance to local, regional and central government. More about our specialist support…
Expert advice and consultancy to playground providers and companies. More about our consultancy…
Evidence for effective action. More about evidence for effective action …
Independent, expert advice to Government and other bodies. More about our representation and advocacy work…