The project activities primarily comprise three interrelated approaches that together will assist countries in adopting, implementing and monitoring evidence-based good practices to reduce injuries and support national child safety action plans.
- Activities to benchmark and monitor child injury and related actions:
- Monitoring progress in child safety action through national child safety report cards and profiles in over 30 countries, including all 27 EU Member States
- Developing and piloting an easy to use Child Safety Index and tool kit to allow sub-national regions (localities within a country) to assess their safety performance against the national picture, and prioritise their actions
- Activities to support the uptake and implementation of what works in child injury prevention:
- Developing case studies of both successful and unsuccessful attempts to adopt and implement evidence-based child injury prevention actions at the national level in participating countries, in order to identify key barriers and facilitators to guide Member States in their own efforts
- Developing in-depth case studies of how policy decisions regarding child safety are made and how prevention programmes are delivered in six sub-national regions in order to more effectively facilitate implementation of national Child Safety Action Plans, including uptake of evidence-based good practices to sub-national levels
- Developing audience specific tools which will address three stages of childhood in order to support uptake of evidence-based injury prevention strategies
- Activities to explore the multi-sectoral and cross cutting nature of child injury:
- Exploring the effect of health and social inequities on child injury rates and the effectiveness of injury prevention strategies in addressing inequities within and between EU Member States
- Mapping responsibility for child injury prevention in the EU, and in participating countries and six sub-national regions in order to:
- Illustrate the complexity of the child injury issue and highlight the gains of a co-ordinated multi-sectoral response, and
- Build decision makers' understanding of how a multi-sectoral response most effectively utilises scarce resources and allows for gains in other health areas as well.
- Exploring facilitators and barriers to multi-sectoral action at the national and sub-national (regional) levels, and communicate results in order to support development and/or implementation of national child safety action plans