Reducing injuries in the early years: Home safety training

Injury Prevention Briefing. Preventing unintentional injuries to the under fives: a guide for practitioners (IPB) was developed as part of a five year programme of research, Keeping Children Safe at Home, funded by the National Institute for Health Research. The IPB has been endorsed by NICE (resource E0079) (April 2016).Dissemination of the IPB was an integral part of the KCS programme: following a dissemination workshop in Bristol, Bristol City Council (BCC) awarded us ‘Public Health New Investment’ funding for further dissemination workshops across Bristol and to academic and community practitioners further afield, including UWE students (children’s nursing and SCPHN). An initial workshop exit evaluation form was given out at the end of each workshop. With additional competitive funding from the University of the West of England, a six month post-workshop on-line survey was undertaken which aimed to assess the impact of the IPB. This included questions about its use, what aspects were used, who with and with how many families/parents. KCS IPB injury Prevention workshops have been delivered to 332 delegates. The delegates attending covered a wide range of professionals and students: including early years’ practitioners and teaching staff, health visitors, children’s centre staff, community nurses and children’s nursing and Specialist Community Public Health Nurse students at UWE.The immediate feedback following the workshop and evaluation of the IPB at the six months follow-up both indicate that the IPB has been, and is expected to be, of benefit to practitioners within a wide variety of settings . The IPB has been used in face-to-face and one-to-one discussions with parents at home, as well as in group sessions at children’s centres. Teachers and mentors are continuing to use it with families and to educate health visitors and community professionals, students, and colleagues, thus its impact will continue