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Poorer children suffer the most accidents
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
24 October 2002
Children from socially deprived backgrounds are 15 times more likely to be killed in a house fire than children from affluent families, according to a report published last week by the Accidental Injury Taskforce. In its report to the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, the Taskforce said, 'The burden of accidental death and injury is disproportionately heavy on the most disadvantaged in society. Residential fire deaths for children are 15 times greater for children in social class five compared with those in social class one.'
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