The use of child restraints, especially rearward facing, has proved to be very effective. This effectiveness is mainly addressed to frontal impacts and ejection. The protection in side impacts is however limited. Among restrained children 1/3 of the serious injuries occur in side impacts. The implication for better side protection is therefore clear. In this presentation, accident data is used to give the background for the main priorities in increasing child restraint protection. The injury mechanism is discussed in relation to fullscale laboratory tests and real life case studies. A test method is proposed, and results from using the method on child restraint in ECE mass group 1 is showed. It is concluded that the side protection can be increased by fairly simple methods.