Children Safety
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Introduction
Children safety is mandatory, and all stakeholders should ensure children are protected. That promotes welfare and wellbeing of children. It starts by putting mechanism, which provides that children are safe and well protected. Children are vulnerable to car and traffic related accidents because of their innocent nature. It is therefore the responsibility of the guardian and government to ensure there are mechanisms to reduce the number of accidents. The child restrainers are mainly belts found in the work place, home, playing ground, vehicles, and motorsports for children, mobility and passage vehicles (Eby & Kostyniuk, 1998).
Proposal on children safety
All vehicles should be fitted with children safety restrainers especially the school busses. Many accidents have been reported that involved young children. If this gadget is put in the right place, it will minimize fatal accidents and serious injuries when accidents occur. It has proven they provide protection to children during minor or fatal accidents (Reisinger &Williams, 1978).
The above proposal was made after the study to see the impact of appropriate restraint among children and reception of their families to the gadgets. A group of children aged three to five years was observed while being driven to the daycare and schools. The restrainers were provided to low social economic status families at reduced cost. After the research, a number of issues came up. The program was successful though there were few limitations (Dance, Legault, & Stewart, 1998).
To begin with, the families appreciated the program. It was effective since it was intergraded with an existing program called Kids and Traffic Safety program, which trains the children and guardian on traffic issues. Secondly, the safety restrainers were available and accessible since they were provided at a reduced cost. Finally, the involvement of early childhood expert helped in creating awareness and training families on the benefits of the program (Arbogast, Bents, Durbin, Meaney, Werner, & Winston, 1998).
The research outlined the following Limitations; they included little turn outs and uncooperativeness by the Guardians since it was during the day, and they were busy. Some people were misusing the Children restraint gadgets and leaving the children alone. In addition, the research did not look at the sustainability and long terms use of the restrainer program. Research recommendations proposed the following action points. They included; integrating existing partners in the program involving early childhood expert, capacity building for guardians, teachers, and nannies. In addition, awareness campaigns were held on the benefits and risks involved in using the children restraint gadgets (Williams, 1978).
Impact on low Social, economic status on the child restraint program
From the study, it is clear how guardians from a low economic status are not able to afford the child restrainer gadgets. The government had to intervene to ensure the restraint devices are available and affordable to the low-income families. The study assumes the parents were not available since it was during the day and they were busy. Social, economic status involves income, education, and occupation (Fisher, 1994).
Research bias
Most people participating in the research had their expectations, views and judgment concerning the child restraint program. Some of these biases came up while selecting the study sample, data analysis, evaluating outcomes, interpreting results and publishing. That can be prevented if people focused on the objective of the survey.
The distribution of the kitty was expensive and inaccessible. Bias includes cultural background, age, and gender, social, economic status, race, and information bias. Such biases might have come due to the first impression between the researcher and participants. In this study, the members were not cooperative, and claimed they were busy. In addition, the test sample was on those living on low social economic status who cannot afford the child restrainers program (Brown, Griffiths, Henderson, 1996).
It is possible having biases in health-related research. Observation method is the only appropriate method, which can be used. There are always potential problems, which pose bias challenge during data analysis and interpretation of results. Such problems can be avoided through proper and careful planning, being objective and having in mind the expected bias or pitfalls.
Children restraint Program evaluation
That is measuring the impact of the child restraint program using the indicators/expected outcomes. Evaluation calls to see how the program was implemented, if it followed the set procedure and used the resources scheduled for the entire programs. It calls for an assessment of the impact of the program.
The Australia government introduced the program and set a board to oversee the implementation of the program. Some of the items that every car was supposed to fit for the safety of children in Australia included the following. The board was tasked to research and come up with gadgets, which should be put on the public and school transport buses. They included a head accelerator, super harness strap, seat belts, tether forces, bucker release strength and adjustments slip (Reisinger & Williams, 1978).
After a thorough evaluation, child restraint has shown exceptional protection in severe car crashes. Serious car injuries have been linked to misuse of child restraints for example fitting low-quality gadgets, or the machines not being fitted well.
Evaluation is very critical but poses challenges when it is done without proper planning or when the program is still at the initial stage. It can give negative feedback, which can lead to the collapse of the program. The program should be evaluated in phases and on specific project areas. That will help point out the progress and show areas where more emphasis should be put (Reisinger & William, 1978).
Conclusion
We need to support child restraint registration and policies and do serious campaigns advocating for child restraint program at schools and home. That will reduce the number of serious injuries involved in road crashes or other accidents.
Secondly, education will be critical to ensuring effective implementation of the program .The team in charge should organize workshops and seminars to train the guardians and all stakeholders. For example, school administration should be trained to ensure school buses are fitted with child restraint gadgets, family cars, and public transport system (Lumley, 1998).
Thirdly, there is a need for awareness campaigns to advocate for proper use of child restraint gadget in all transport means and schools. The campaign message aim is to sensitize the various stakeholders the benefits and risks involved when using the child restraint devices. That should be an ongoing campaign (Brown & Kelly, 1998).
It is important to incorporate all children and road safety experts in planning and implementing for this program. It makes it easy to roll out information and ensure the public adhere to the training. The cost of the gadgets should be reasonable. The governments can come in to help the citizens acquire the child restraint devices. Finally, the child restraint program should be community oriented. Members of the community can adopt the model, which best works for them regarding convenience, cost, and availability.