1998 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Child accident prevention through healthy alliances
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This chapter will examine the use of healthy alliances in designing and implementing a programme of work on child accident prevention in the County of Avon. This examination is based on a two-year Child Accident Prevention through Healthy Alliances project. In July 1993 the Health Education Authority (HEA) selected Avon and Shropshire to pilot a two-year study that would investigate and assess the progress made by two interagency groupings, or healthy alliances, in designing a programme of work on child accident prevention. Funding of £100,000 was awarded to each alliance over a two-year period to resource activities. An independent research team was commissioned to evaluate the development of alliance-working and the accident prevention work undertaken. The Child Accident Prevention Trust, in association with MEL Research Ltd and the Department of Child Health, University of Newcastle, undertook the research.