Information and Resource Centre

An integral part of the Safekids strategy for child injury prevention is to provide a solid base of information about unintentional child injury and how it can be prevented.

The Safekids Information & Resource Centre is located at the 5th Floor, Cornwall Complex, 40 Claude Road, Epsom, Auckland 1023,
New Zealand

The Safekids Information and Resource Centre is a professional library service with a comprehensive collection of national and international material collated since 1993. We aim to promote and assist child injury-prevention work throughout New Zealand by providing useful and appropriate resources and information services which include:

Information about any area of unintentional child injury and its prevention.
Resource material and information about planning interventions, education, training sessions and campaigns.
Child injury issues, trends and emerging issues.

At the Information and Resource Centre, you will find:

Academic literature - journal articles, research reports.
Books on injury prevention, health promotion and programme development.
Journals and newsletters from prevention agencies.
Examples of prevention programmes and campaign literature, pamphlets and posters.
Sample copies of New Zealand child-safety resources.
Training resources, teaching kits, information kits.
Education resources, including videos and DVDs.
Newspaper clippings organised by subject.
Access to significant electronic reference resources such as Medline and e-journals.

Use our Information Search Engine (this searches our 'Inmagic DB/TextWorks' library catalogue database) and the Useful Links page for online information on child injury prevention. The KidsInfo Bulletin, Safekids News, Safekids resources, project plans and presentations are available online. Factsheets, position papers and research are also available online.

We act as an information 'clearinghouse', and if we don't have the answer to your question we probably know someone who will.

For information about the annual Summer Research Scholarships (Value $4,000 each) from the Child Accident Prevention Foundation (CAPFNZ) please click here.

Information is provided at no charge to you. We reserve the right to provide information on the condition that Safekids NZ is acknowledged as the source of help and that written attribution is given in any resource or publication which is then produced.

For queries, please contact our Information Specialist, Wayne Carter, phone +64 9 631 0724 or email infocentre@safekids.org.nz.

Wayne is originally from Opotiki in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and, as well as being a qualified librarian, holds a recent Fine Arts degree from Elam (University of Auckland).

This page was last updated June 4th, 2010.