16% of three-year-olds need hospital care for injuries

Approximately one in six three-year-olds in the Republic of Ireland has had an accident or injury that required hospital treatment or admission, according to a report published today.

Children in homes with two parents where the primary carer did not have a longstanding health condition were least at risk of injury.

Those most at risk were children in one-parent households where the carer had a longstanding condition, where there were other children in the home, and where the carer was not educated to degree level.