This Child Safety Report Card Summary for 18 countries was developed as part of the Child Safety Action Plan project; a large-scale initiative whose purpose is to use standardised tools and processes to facilitate development of national action plans to enhance child and adolescent safety in Europe. The initiative is led by the European Child Safety Alliance of Eurosafe, with co-funding and partnership from the European Commission, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, the Universities of Keele and the West of England, WHO-Europe and partners in 18 countries. One of the objectives of the Child Safety Action Plan initiative was to establish a set of indicators and standardised data collection tools focussing on child and adolescent injury to identify a baseline level of child and adolescent injury burden and action in the participating countries. This was seen as important to supporting planning and providing a means of benchmarking and evaluating progress in reducing child and adolescent injury as the countries move from planning to implementation. The Child Safety Report Card Summary for 18 countries and the country specific child safety report cards and profiles are the result of this activity. For more information on the Child Safety Action Plan initiative, the child safety report cards and profiles for the 18 countries go to the European Child Safety Alliance website at: http://www.childsafetyeurope.org (Author/publisher)
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