Making sense of accidents

We want to help you cut to the chase so you can:

focus on the most serious and preventable accidents to children, appreciate the links between deprivation and childhood accidents, understand the links between accidents and ages and stages of development.
Here we share crucial understanding on accident prevention, so safety makes sense.

The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) is the UK’s leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents.

Child safety advice to families

• We give free child safety advice to parents and carers on our website, as well as online quizzes and activities on popular safety topics.
• We distribute family-friendly resources like picture booklets, leaflets, posters and DVDs. Staff working with families can buy these from our shop, and distribute them to parents and carers in their local communities.
• We spread key safety messages and help change behaviour through our safety campaigns. We reach millions of children, young people, parents and grandparents UK-wide through Child Safety Week. One in ten parents surveyed made their children safer from serious accidents because of this work.

Supporting professionals working with children and families

We support over 25,000 frontline staff UK-wide who work with children, young people, and their families. We provide:

• Factsheets, good practice guides and child safety resources for professionals.
• Monthly email newsletters packed with the latest safety information and advice.