WHSC : Projects
Child Safety Week – June 19-26, 2006
Last year for Child Safety Week 26,000 height charts with information warning of the dangers of burns and scalds, fire, poisonings and falls went to 130 different projects and agencies to be distributed to parents and carers of young children.
The Wales Home Safety Council – in association with RoSPA – produced the free bilingual English/Welsh resources to highlight key home safety issues for parents and carers. The charts were used by health visitors, Sure Start, Home Start workers, Women’s Aid groups, voluntary organisations, schools and playgroups, the National Childminding Association, hospitals and many other types of agencies to reinforce about the dangers there are in the home to young children.
This year similar resources will be available. Packs with 25 height charts and 25 fridge magnets – with the safety message “Keep Hot Drinks Away from Children!” – will be available along with information sheets. The magnets can be put on the fridge door in the kitchen to remind parents and carers when making hot drinks to keep them away from children.
Packs are available for direct distribution by those in Wales involved with parents and carers of young children such as health visitors, Sure Start and Home Start workers etc.
More information and resources for Child Safety Week are available at www.capt.org.uk
Child Safety Seminar – Swansea Guildhall, Thursday, June 15, 2006
To highlight Child Safety Week there will be a Child Safety Seminar in the Guildhall, Swansea, on Thursday, June 15, from 9.30am – 3.30pm.
Attendance is free but there is a £15 returnable deposit to reserve a place.
Speakers include:
- Julia Osmond, Senior Health Promotion Specialist, Newport Public Health Team. Childhood Accidents from a Black and Ethnic Minority Perspective.
- Rosie Spears, Welsh National Poisons Information Service. Avoiding Everyday Dangers Around the Home.
- Kath Griffiths, Health Alliance Coordinator, Merthyr Tydfil CBC. Buy Wise Be Safe video – Partnering to Prevent Accidents.
- Dot Griew, Institute of Fundraising. Your Strategy for Survival.
For further information see Programme & Booking Form (
PDF format 100kb)
Falls Awareness Day – Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Falls Awareness Day on June 27 is being run by Help the Aged to raise awareness of the seriousness of falls in the elderly and to promote prevention of falls.
To support Falls Awareness Day RoSPA Wales, in conjunction with the Wales Home Safety Council, is producing a pack that can be used to promote the day in Wales. Resources and information are also available from Help the Aged via their website www.helptheaged.org.uk
Available in the packs will be:
- 25 tea towels with 10 “Keep Safe!” messages. They have been very popular when used as part of the Keep Well This Winter campaign
- How Safe is Your Home? quiz. This can be photocopied and distributed and is a good way of talking through potential hazards with older people or referring them on to other agencies such as Care and Repair for advice on hand or grab rails or the fire service for smoke alarms
- Information sheet
- Bookmarks with safety advice
Poster and coaster campaign
In 2003 the Wales Home Safety Council spearheaded an anti burns and scalds campaign across Wales. A Posters and Coasters campaign highlighting the dangers of scalds from hot drinks was launched for Child Safety Week in June. Posters, available in English and Welsh, were distributed across Wales for use in doctors’ surgeries, community centres, local authority venues, for use by Sure Start and Home Start workers. This was in partnership with RoSPA’s Welsh Home Safety Office in Cardiff, the Welsh Scald Prevention Campaign, Child Safe North Wales, CAPIC and various local authorities.
Relaunch of the WHSC home safety trailer
The WHSC has a mobile puppet theatre used to teach children the need for home safety. It is currently being refurbished and is now fitted into a smaller, easier to handle trailer about the size of a small caravan. Work has taken place to finish off the outside of the trailer with artwork and display boards. There is no cost to use the theatre, it just needs to be picked up and dropped off from its Swansea depot. There is space for posters and leaflets to be displayed on the side doors and room at the rear for carrying literature. It has proved a very popular way of communicating home safety messages to young children. The picture below shows the outside of the trailer.
While inside are scenes from the home and garden which can be used interactively with children to discuss home safety.
For information on the trailer and to use it contact:
Huw Thomas,
Public Protection Dept.,
County Offices,
Llangefni,
Anglesey.
LL77 7TW
Tel: 01248 752823 E-Mail: hatpp@ynysmon.gov.uk
Keep Safe! Winter Tea Towel campaign 2005
As part of the Keep Well This Winter campaign organised by the Welsh Assembly Government, RoSPA and the Wales Home Safety Council are producing tea towels with ten safety messages on them to be distributed to the over 65s across Wales. A pack of 100 is available free to the coordinator of the campaign in each local authority and more can be ordered if required at a reasonable cost. The messages include advice on smoke alarms, keeping stairs clear of clutter, on chip pans, servicing gas appliances and keeping stairs and hallways well lit. The tea towels are bilingual Welsh and English and with a colourful Celtic design.
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