Child Safety
Advice, information and resources for safety practitioners, parents, teachers and other professionals who work with children about child safety on the road, in the home and at play can be found in the different Safety Areas of RoSPA's website. The quick links below will also take you to the main child safety content on our website.
Safe Halloween
The best way to celebrate Halloween is at a home-based party. But, if you do plan to go trick or treating, these Safe Halloween (
PDF format 165kb) guidelines, developed by RoSPA and the Halloween Association, will help you enjoy yourself while respecting other people's privacy.
Children In and Around Cars Survey
Every parent knows that it is impossible to keep an eye on young children every second of the day. Youngsters want to explore and try things out, without understanding potential dangers. Sadly, there have been tragic incidents on the driveways of residential properties and when children have been left alone in cars.
RoSPA produced and ran a short online survey to gather information about these types of incident. The survey shut on 5th January 2010, and the responses will be studied and the findings and resulting advice will be published on this page.
For further information about the survey you can e-mail Lindsey Simkins.
The survey can still be found online, for information only, at Children In and Around Cars Questionnaire.
European Child Safety Report Cards
On May 6, 2009, the European Child Safety Alliance of EuroSafe launched Child Safety Report Cards for more than 20 countries. Scotland and England were among the countries for which report cards and country profiles were produced. Find out more...
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Child Safety in the Home |
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www.childcarseats.org.uk
A website giving advice and information about choosing and using child car seats |
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RoSPA Home Safety
Advice and information on all aspects of home safety. |
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Carrying Other People's Children Safely
A booklet giving advice about using child seats and seat belts for anyone who transports other people's children in a car, taxi, bus or coach.
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Child Safety Equipment Schemes - Good Practice Guidelines
A comprehensive set of good practice guidelines that offer practical advice on how to set up and maintain successful child safety equipment schemes and overcome common hurdles that prevent schemes from running successfully, or at all. |
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Children In and Around Cars
Advice about how to avoid the dangers of children being hit by cars reversing on driveways and to ensure that children are not able to get hold of the car keys. (PDF format 43 kb) |
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RoSPA Child Home Safety Policy Statements
RoSPA Child Home Safety policies. |
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Road Safety Resources for Teachers
Resources designed to help schools and teachers incorporate road safety education into lessons and school activities. They are, where appropriate, linked to curriculum areas and are tailored to different age groups. |
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Babysitting Guidance
Advice for parents and babysitters. In the absence of legislation, both RoSPA and the NSPCC recommend that no one under 16 should be left to care for an infant. |
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Road Safety Resources for Parents
Advice for parents on child road safety. |
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Home Safety Curriculum Framework
Developed with the support of the DTI, the framework provides a resource for schools looking to include home safety in the Curriculum. Although aimed at teachers the resource may prove to be useful to anyone working in home safety within a school setting.
A lesson plan has been provided for each individual activity in the framework and, where appropriate, an accompanying worksheet has been included.
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Road Safety Projects Sheet
A series of road safety projects for children and young people. |
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Child Proofing Your House
An article discussing a sensible and realistic approach to keeping children safe at home, while still encouraging their normal development. |
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Child Car Seat Film
A RoSPA film entitled “Carrying Children Safely”, which demonstrates what to consider when choosing, buying and fitting child car seats.
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Product Safety Factsheets
A series of factsheets about the safety of products, including stair gates and toys. |
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| Child Safety at Play |
Risk and Safety Education |
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RoSPA Play Safety
RoSPA’s Play Safety website provides information on playground management and the safety of indoor and outdoor play areas. |
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Health and Safety at School
A series of advice sheets on how to ensure that school activities, including school trips, can be safely organised and conducted, without discouraging the activities or losing their educational benefits. |
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Play Safety Information Sheets
Information sheets covering all aspects of playground safety. |
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Building Site Safety
Two resource packs (one for Key Stage 1 and the other for Key Stage 2) that aim to raise awareness of the dangers of construction sites amongst teachers, pupils and the wider community. |
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Water and Leisure Safety Information
Advice, information and resources covering all aspects of water safety. |
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LASER
Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk.
High quality practical safety education where children and young people learn how to
recognise hazards and dangers,
take and use safety advice,
make judgements about possible harm to self and others,
take some responsibility for own safety and the safety of others, and
summon help quickly. |
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Firework Safety
RoSPA’s Safer Fireworks website provides comprehensive advice and information about firework safety, including how to make sure firework parties are fun and safe, the Firework Code, how to organise a display and how to deal with specific types of fireworks from rockets to Catherine Wheels. |
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Safety Education Resources
A wide range of printed and other resources designed to enable teachers and others to empower children to develop appropriate knowledge and skills to remain safe in any environment.
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| Child Safety in Europe |
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 European Child Safety Alliance
RoSPA shares the UK seat on the working group of the Alliance with the Child Accident Prevention Trust. The European Child Safety Alliance is an initiative of the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe) to advance child injury prevention throughout Europe. |
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