RoSPA in Europe
RoSPA takes an active role in a number of European projects on injury prevention. Meeting professionals from other countries leads to valuable exchange of information and good practice.
European Child Safety Alliance
RoSPA shares the UK seat on the steering group of the alliance with the Child Accident Prevention Trust. The European Child Safety Alliance is an initiative of the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe) to advance child injury prevention throughout Europe.
The mission of the alliance is to enhance the quality of children's lives through the power of reason, solidarity and compassion. The alliance has three goals.
- Goal 1:
To influence key decision-makers and leaders at the European level to enhance healthy public policies and funding for child injury prevention initiatives
- Goal 2:
To stimulate European-level injury prevention awareness promotions to increase the profile of child injury prevention
- Goal 3:
To organise a European Child Injury Prevention Network to share resources, best practice and develop partnerships in child injury prevention throughout Europe.
Over the past two years the alliance has campaigned to improve home safety and it linked with RoSPA in 2009 to run the first European Child Home Safety Conference. It has previously campaigned on child drowning prevention.
Some members, including RoSPA, are helping to produce national child safety action plans.
For further information visit: www.childsafetyeurope.org.
Child Safety Action Plans
The Child Safety Action Plan (CSAP) project is being run by the European Child Safety Alliance. The aim of this large-scale project is to use standardised tools and processes to develop action plans to enhance child safety in 18 countries in the European Union.
RoSPA staff in Scotland and Northern Ireland have worked with a variety of partners in those countries to produce plans.
For further information see the European Child Safety Alliance website.
RoSPA and the AdRisk project
The Community Action on Adolescents and Injury Risk (AdRisk) project responds to the call for an integrated approach to reduce the injury risk among adolescents. AdRisk defines adolescents as young people aged 15-24. The project focuses on national policy and strategy development, situation analysis, network development and the provision of tools and good practices.
In 2009 RoSPA, through its membership of the project, organised an international seminar entitled "Engaging young people in injury prevention - practical approaches to risk competence".
European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe)
RoSPA is a member of the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe), which has a very useful website containing some valuable statistics on accidental injury across Europe.
For more information visit: www.eurosafe.eu.com.
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