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Unintentional Injury Prevention

Unintentional Injury Prevention aims to teach children, young people and their families how to avoid accidents and the injuries that can result from them. It covers a wide range of topics including home safety, road safety and water safety.


Training & Events

Unintentional Injury Prevention (UIP) is a relatively new area for Healthy Schools’ programme. Teaching children and young people the knowledge, skills and understanding they need in order to be able to keep themselves safe in any given situation, is a fundamental part of any quality PSHE curriculum. 

Our UIP offer will support schools to consider the priority areas for their unique setting, be that road, tram, train and/or water safety, alongside safety considerations around the home.

Our universal training is available for all schools that have completed the Health Check. 

Schools that have prioritised Unintentional Injury Prevention this year will have access to a wider selection of ‘in-house’ training and support to ensure that they are able to make significant progress in this area.

Please find a full list of training available to support Unintentional Injury Prevention below.

For more information please contact ceri.hewitt@mft.nhs.uk

Unintentional Injury Prevention

Unintentional Injury Prevention for Early Years Settings and Childminders

10th January 2025

1 hour


Online


This 1-hour training session covers: What are unintentional injuries?→Types of accidents leading to injuries→How Manchester families are affected How can practitioners support families with reducing...
Unintentional Injury Prevention

Unintentional Injury Prevention for Early Years Settings and Childminders

15th January 2025

1 hour


Online


This 1-hour training session covers: What are unintentional injuries?→Types of accidents leading to injuries→How Manchester families are affected How can practitioners support families with reducing...
Unintentional Injury Prevention

Open Water Safety: Warm Weather

25th March 2025

1 hour


Online


This one-hour training course is suitable for all staff. The session will explore the importance of teaching open water safety, the dangers of cold-water shock, drowning prevention techniques and...
Unintentional Injury Prevention

Safer Active Travel

1st May 2025

1.5 hours


Online


This universal training aims to support teachers and other professionals in teaching young people about road safety while encouraging methods of active travel. Effective road safety education is not j...
Unintentional Injury Prevention

Effective Safety Education: Avoiding Accidents and Injuries

1 hour


Face-to-face


This training offers an insight into the area of unintentional injury prevention. It will share the picture nationally and locally, the factors that make families more vulnerable to unintentional inju...
Unintentional Injury Prevention

Safer Active Travel

1 hour


Face-to-face


This one-hour training aims to support teachers and other professionals in teaching young people about road safety. Effective road safety education is not just about learning the rules, knowledge must...

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We offer bespoke training courses. Please contact us for more information

TESTIMONIALS

“Good informative and practical training that I feel able to share with families and really useful links to get more help and support. Thankyou”

Early Help Training

• I really enjoyed the practical tips that I will use in lessons and in my general talk/school life.

• Lots of useful examples and interesting statistics

• Ceri’s delivery was concise and understandable, as well as resources and links provided


Very clear and engaging talk, I enjoyed.

Unintentional Injury Prevention: An Introduction in Primary Settings

I found the meeting fascinating and made some great contacts.

UIP Steering Group

Thank you so much for the training session yesterday. The staff got a lot out of it and have already put things into action which is great.

Water Safety Training

RESOURCES

We hope to create new resources to support you based on your needs within this area.

However, we will also signpost to other organisations and resources linked to specific campaigns.

If you are a school engaged with us we suggest that you log in prior to viewing resources so these can be recorded in your school dashboard.

If you are struggling to find resources around a related topic area, please do get in touch to let us know: ceri.hewitt@mft.nhs.uk