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Formed in 1930 the Scottish Accident Prevention Council is the only body in Scotland where practitioners, politicans, frontline staff, academics, government, local authorities, health professionals and interested partners come together to formulate and enhance the worth of accident prevention.

Annual Report 2010

Buiness Plan 2011 - 12

Governance & Membership Review 2011

Our objectives are

• to bring together Scotlands accident prevention community
• co-ordinate approaches to accident prevention
• to stimulate debate in the accident prevention arena
• to promote best practice in accident prevention design
• to promote implementation of common sense strategies
• to support enhancments in accident prevention policy

Our membership and partners are drawn from a wide range of organisations and bodies throughout Scotland who have an involvement in matters affecting accident prevention, and safety, in the public, private and voluntary sector as well as working in partnership with the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA).

The Council consists of representatives from Local Authorities, including Police, Fire Services, Education, Social Work and Roads Departments; Health Boards, Housing Associations, Motoring Organisations, and voluntary and professional bodies are also included in our membership.

Each of the organisations represented on the Council has an involvement in safety to varying degrees. Collectively, the combination of local authority elected members and officials, professional bodies and dedicated voluntary groups has an outstanding range of administrative and technical experience.

The principal role of the Council is to bring together all of these interests in a way that is not possible in any other forum. By sharing experiences and learning from the contributions of its members, the Council is in a special position to identify trends in accidents in Scotland and, more importantly, to concentrate the combined weight of its membership towards achieving practical solutions.

Our principle role is facilitated by allowing members the following benefits

• access to good practice
• support to members
• networking opportunities
• lobbying opportunities

Accidents occur in a moment, and are usually avoidable. The impact on the individual, the economic and social effect on the family (especially if the main bread-winner is the victim), the curtailment of the future lives of young victims, the burden on health and social services, the long term economic drain through absence from work, are each in themselves sufficient to justify the strongest action.