Almost 2000 children aged between 0 and 4 years were hospitalised in the South East due to accidents in the home, such as burns and poisoning, last year alone.
The Child Accident Prevention Trust have organised Child Safety Week to advise parents about how to avoid accidents in the home, with the theme 'Make a Change. Make a Difference'. The event will run from 23rd to 29th November and Sure Start Weston Children's Centre have activities on Wednesday 25th to find out more about hazards to children.
1. How would you follow up this release?
Go to the event - speak to parents and find out how aware they were of the issue and how they feel they've benefited from the day.
2. What extra information might you want/need?
More about the charities and their backgrounds - have they organised any events like this before and how successful were they?
3. Who would you try to talk to?
Someone who was running or organising the event or someone who had an in depth knowledge of the statistics of children's accidents at home and where the information came from.
4. What angle would you be working on?
The impact it's having on child safety.
I think it is really good that you start your article with introducing a fact, because it makes the reader want to read on.
ReplyDeleteSophie, I like that you rounded the figure up to 2000 instead of writing the actual number. It makes the reader more intrigued at the large number of hospitalized children, it works well.
ReplyDeleteI like the intro lots, Sophie. The only issue, as I mentioned in seminar, is the fact these stats were drawn from 2014 and the story was bout an event in November 2015, raising questions over the timeliness of those stats. Also, most publications tend to write out the numbers one to nine, and then use digits from the number 10 onwards. This is the style we use on Newsday and you should too. A small, but important, point.
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