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. More about our safety advice
  • 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. More about our resources for families… [link to ‘Our resources’ section – ‘For families’ internal page]
  • 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… [link to ‘Our resources’ section – ‘For practitioners’ internal page]
  • Monthly email bulletins packed with the latest safety information and advice. More about our email bulletins… [link to ‘Our services’ section – ‘Information’ internal page]
  • 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