Move to cut child injuries

A National plan of action to reduce the number of accidentalinjuries to children in Scotland should be put in place by the endof next year.

It is estimated children's accidents cost the NHS in Scotlandpounds40 million every year.

Today's report, the Child Safety Strategy, also showed that thechild death rate from unintentional injuries in Scotland is 30%higher than that for England and Wales.

Willie Wills, spokesman for the Royal Society for the Preventionof Accidents in Scotland, which helped produce the strategy said:"We're not suggesting we wrap children up in wool until they are 21.

"But we need to find ways of identifying problem areas."