Health visitors play a vital role in reducing unintentional injuries by taking a preventative approach, supporting families to create safer home environments and improve their understanding of common risks. Most unintentional injuries in under 5-year-olds occur in and around the home, with health visitors helping parents build safety awareness by sharing evidence based messages, discussing hazards during home visits, and promoting the use of appropriate safety equipment. Through regular contact and health promotion conversations, health visitors strengthen families’ health literacy, empowering them to prevent accidents and keep young children safe.
iHV Resources
📃 Good Practice Points and Parent Tips
Developed in collaboration with topic experts, health visitors, and other professionals, our resources draw on the latest available evidence at the time of publication. Each resource is produced through a robust quality assurance process and peer reviewed to ensure accuracy, relevance, and strong alignment with health visiting practice.
External Resources
The Child Accident Prevention Trust Resource Centre
The iHV also signposts to ‘unintentional injury and accident prevention’ resources produced by The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT). Please visit their website and resource centre for a range of up-to-date resources for practitioners (including parent-facing resources and resource packs for national campaigns/ Child Safety Week).