Children in Wales - Plant yng Nghymru is aiming to develop a Child Safety Action Plan for Wales in 2008. This is with the support of the Collaboration for Accident Prevention and Injury Control and the Child Accident Prevention Trust. The project is funded by Health Challenge Wales, Welsh Assembly Government.

The focus of the proposed Child Safety Action Plan for Wales, to be published in 2008, will be to underpin and present approaches to reach the injury and death reduction targets already present in Welsh Assembly Government policy: in particular the National Service Framework for Children (NSF) and within the Road Safety Strategy and the Fire and Rescue National Framework for Wales.

The Child Safety Action Plan for Wales aims to:

• Reduce health inequalities - children from the poorest families are at least three times more likely to be killed in accidents than those who are from the wealthiest families

• Improve the health of children in Wales

    - Prevent or reduce the severity of avoidable injury

    - Create opportunities for them to play safely and actively thus reducing obesity.

Children in Wales is interested in the views of all those affected by the recommendations made in this paper, and invite you to complete the questionnaire and return it to us by Friday September 12th 2008.

Comments and responses already received during focus groups, workshops and seminars will be considered for inclusion in the final document at the end of the consultation period.

Click here to download the Child Safety Action Plan.

Click here to download the questionnaire.