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Child Safety Report Cards and Profiles launched!
Click here to download report cards, country profiles and supporting documents.
The Child Safety Report Cards summarise a country’s performance to July 2006 with respect to the level of safety provided to children and adolescents through national level policy. They describe:
1) how well a country is doing to make it safe for children,
2) what priority issues need to be addressed, and
3) which good practices should be adopted, implemented and enforced to prevent accidental injuries and to save more children’s lives.
The report cards assess the extent of safety measures provided to children and adolescents by examining and grading the adoption, implementation and enforcement of national level evidence-based policies. The Child Safety Summary Report Card for 18 Countries provides a multi-country overview to facilitate European-level planning to support national level efforts. The Report Cards are designed to provide not only a baseline on which to assess progress but also a tool for identifying current policy gaps and suggesting priorities for action.
The Child Safety Report Card Europe: Summary for 18 countries provides an overview of the report card results for the 18 participating countries including recommendations for action on child safety at the national and European level.
The Child Safety Profiles provide countries with a standard set of measures of the burden of children and adolescents injuries overall and by issue area, and information on socio-demographic determinants and availability and affordability of child safety equipment. This information serves as a background resource when considering how to best address child and adolescent injury in each country and allows better decisions to be made during planning, particularly during identifying critical issues, priority setting and resource allocation. It also allows the monitoring of progress and evaluation of action that takes place at both a national and European level.
The documents were launched on November 20th – International Day of the Child, at the European Parliament, Brussels in a session hosted by MEP Arlene McCarthy, Chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Several simultaneous national launches also took place in partnering countries on November 20th while others will occur in the upcoming weeks. A copy of the official press release is included below with the other downloads. The aim of the public launch is to communicate the review findings to influential policy makers and stakeholders at both the EU and national level so that they can galvanise action.
Child Safety Report Cards and Profiles serve as part of the assessment phase in the development of national action plans addressing child and adolescent safety as part of the Child Safety Action Plan initiative. For more information on the initiative click here.
For more information contact the Secretariat at secretariat@childsafetyeurope.org
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