Childhood injuries (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)
High level priorities
- Commissioners should ensure that childhood injury prevention in written into future contracts for health & social care services that work with families.
- Work should be undertaken to standardise the targeted support offered to families identified as being at risk based on evidence.
- Further work should be done to explore the cost effectiveness of providing free or discounted home safety equipment to those families deemed most at risk based on the latest evidence.