There was little known about the best ways of stopping accidents at home.  The programme comprised 16 separate studies undertaken between 2009 and 2015 in study centres in Nottingham, Bristol, Norwich and Newcastle (universities and trusts) with the University of Leicester and the Child Accident Prevention Trust integral to the work. 

CACH team: (Liz Towner), Toity Deave, Trudy Goodenough, Kate Beckett

Six work streams comprising five multicentre case–control studies assessing risk and protective factors, a study measuring quality of life and injury costs, national surveys of children’s centres, interviews with children’s centre staff and parents, a systematic review of barriers to, and facilitators of, prevention and systematic overviews, meta-analyses and decision analyses of home safety interventions. Evidence from these studies informed injury prevention briefings (IPB) for children’s centres, one was evaluated by three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial. The primary outcome was parent-reported possession of a fire escape plan. Evidence from all work streams subsequently informed the design of an IPB for preventing thermal injuries, falls and poisoning. This IPB (https://tiny.cc/kcspage) was endorsed by NICE (resource E0079).