An investigation into the medium-long term effects of the National Home Safety Equipment Scheme for pre-school children

Safe At Home, the national home safety equipment scheme for England operated for two years from March 2009 – March 2011. The scheme provided a combination of targeted education, provision and installation of home safety equipment to families with young children living in areas with higher than average hospital admission rates for home injury. The current project aims to consider the impact of the national scheme from the perspective of those parents receiving the programme and the professionals involved in its delivery. Of particular interest are the barriers and facilitators to the uptake of the scheme and the identification of factors contributing to sustainability and capacity building for injury prevention at a local level.

A multiple case study is proposed looking at areas where the scheme has continued beyond the nationally-funded timeframe. National, local, organisational and community-level factors will be explored using multiple methods. The research is funded from a RoSPA/BNFL Fellowship Award for three years (September 2011 – 2014).

Contact Details: Gail Errington, University of Nottingham, ntxge1@nottingham.ac.uk

Date posted: 4th January 2012