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How safe is your driveway?

Its a shocking thought, after all in your care and in your home your child should be safer than anywhere else, but a frightening number of children are killed each year on their very own driveways, often by their own parent who is reversing and simply hasn’t seen them. Unthinkable… As part of a campaign…

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Baby deaths prompt nappy sack warning by RoSPA

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) is alerting parents to the deadly danger of nappy sacks to their babies. At least 12 babies in England and Wales, aged from two-months-old to a year, have died since 2001 from suffocation or choking after putting a nappy sack in their mouth. Common scenarios in…

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Educate your 3 year old toddler about safety in the home

Parents are being encouraged to educate their children as young as three about safety in the home.   Parents are always concerned about their child’s knowledge of safety in the home, and with 78 per cent of parents now saying education should begin with children ages one to three The survey, conducted by Direct Blinds, polled…

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Child safety tips for parents

Are you a parent that is unwittingly putting their children at risk in the very place they are meant to be safest, because you have no idea how to child-proof your home?  Do the products that lurk behind your loo pose one of the biggest threats? A survey by child safety expert Clippasafe across 1,064…

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Help to get kids out and about

Do you wish our children had the same freedom to roam and play outside that you had?  You may find this campaign of interest if you want to encourage your children to play outside. Hundreds of professional bodies are calling on Parliament to tackle the culture of fear and frustration that prevents young people from…

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5th anniversary of child car seat law: demand for advice continues

Five years on from the introduction of a new child car seat law, there is still huge demand from parents for information about how to keep their children safe on the road, says the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. More than 129,000 visits to RoSPA’s child car seats website – www.childcarseats.org.uk – were…

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