For Your Information (FYI)

BEWARE BABY WALKER

A huge 70-80 percent of infants still use baby walkers even though there are some 29,000 children treated in US hospital emergency departments for baby walkers related injuries each year. Gary Smith, M.D., Chief of Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, held a 'Baby Walker Bash" to inform and encourage parents to get rid of their infant's baby walkers. According to Dr. Smith. ''Babies can move more than three feet per second in a baby walker; most accidents occur while the parent is in the same room and more than half the accidents involve stairs with gates. Within a year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is expected to set up mandatory standards. Canada has already banned baby walkers. Good Housekeeping 2/95 and Medically Fragile Newsletter April/May/June 1996 Volume 2/96 issue 17.

INFANT CAR SAFETY:

Cars with air bags present a safety problem for infants and children. Several children have been injured or killed when air bags deployed. To reduce the chances of your child being hurt follow these precautions:
  • Use infant seats and car restraints. Rear facing infant seats should never be placed in the frnnt seat of a vehicle
  • Children should ride in the rear seat whether or not your car is equipped with air bags.
  • If the vehicle does not have a rear seat, position the child and infant seat so that they are as far away from the air bag as possible.
  • When buying a new car, consider models that have air bags designed to deploy from the side.

For more information, call the National Highway Auto Safety Hot line 800-424-9393.

IMMUNIZATION:

New laws and regular regulations for school vaccination requirements will be effective for all students entering the seventh grade in 1997. They include the Hepatitis B Vaccination Services, Second Dose Measles Vaccination and a Tetanus/Diphtheria Boosters. All entering seventh graders MUST have these immunizations before he/she can start the 1997 1998 school year.

STATISTICS DESK:

Child Maltreatment 1994

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCCAN) announces the April release of Child Maltreatment 1994: Reports from the States to the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. This document summarizes information collected through the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), the primary source of national information on abused and neglected children known to State child protection agencies through their reporting and investigating mechanisms.

Child Maltreatment 1994 marks the fifth consecutive year that aggregate child maltreatment data submitted annually by CPS agencies to NCCAN have been published. Data tables are available presenting 1994 statistics on reports, investigations, victims, and perpetrators for each State and across States. In addition, analyses review trends in maltreatment over the 5 years (1990-1994) of NCANDS data collection activities.

The following are among the major finding in the Child Maltreatment Study

  • In 1994, State CPS agencies received 2 million reports of alleged child maltreatment, involving 2.9 million children.
  • CPS investigations determined that over 1 million children were "substantiated" or "indicated" victims of maltreatment.
  • Over the past 5 years (1990-1994), reports of child maltreatment have increased by 14 percent, while the number of substantiated cases has grown by 27 percent.
  • The number of abused and neglected children rose sharply from 1.4 million in 1986 to 2.9 million in 1993, an increase of 105 percent.
  • The number of children who were seriously injured nearly quadrupled from approximately 143,000 in 1986 to more than 572,000 in 1993.
as taken from the National Advocate

 

 

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