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Child Safety Week

Improving Child Safety – for babies, toddlers and young children.

Did you know that the majority of accidents that occur in the home are easily preventable?

We have teamed up with CAPT, Child Accident Prevention Trust, to help raise awareness of Child Safety Week June 18th - 24th, which is a campaign to get all parents to know more about common dangers and how they can prevent them.

“Did you know?” facts….. Small Steps to Safety

A baby’s skin is 15 times thinner than yours. That’s why they can easily get very badly burned.

A hot drink can scald a young child 15 minutes after it’s been made.

Medical professionals count bath water scalds as one of the worst injuries a child can suffer.

It can take just 5 seconds for a toddler to suffer a severe scald from water from the bath hot tap.

Hair straighteners get as hot as your iron and can hold their heat for up to eight minutes after they are switched off.

It can take just seconds for some three or four year olds to open child-resistant tops. They’re not childproof!

Everyday painkillers and other medicines are the most common way for young children to be poisoned.

Cleaning products and DIY chemicals can be very dangerous if children drink them. To a toddler even the cleaner left at the side of the toilet can look interesting enough to drink.

Children’s throats are narrow so can be blocked more easily than an adult’s, anything smaller than the diameter of a two pence piece can cause a child to choke.

Pieces of food are the most common cause of children choking.

Choking can be silent with no sound to warn you that something is wrong.

Child Safety Week 2012

The theme for Child Safety Week 2012 is Small Steps to Safety.

The steps to safety are small but by taking these steps families can make a big difference to children’s safety.

By building small steps to safety into your everyday routine, safety habits will become second nature and not forgotten.

When was the last time you got down to the level of your child and looked at the world through their eyes? Why not take five minutes today and go through your house on your hands and knees - you will be amazed at the dangers!

The steps that keep children safe from serious accidents are the small steps taken every single day by so many parents, grandparents and carers as well as by children and young people themselves. Be it putting their hot drink safely out of reach, teaching children how to cross the road safely, strapping their child into their car seat each time or fitting, or regularly checking, smoke alarms, it’s the little things you do that can make a big difference. Support Child Safety Week and help prevent your child from being an accident statistic.

For FREE resources, downloadable advice and other information visit www.childsafetyweek.org.uk