Child Safety Week - June 2012
Date: 26 May 2012
Child Safety Week Will Be Running Between 18th – 24th June 2012
Child Safety Week is the flagship community education campaign run by the Child Accident Prevent Trust (CAPT). Through Child Safety Week, we raise awareness of the accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how to prevent them.
Accidents are the second biggest killer of UK children. Thousands more children are left with injuries that take years to heal. The long-term psychological impact on children, and their families and friends, can last a lifetime, as can the scars.
Yet 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 fink safely out of reach, teaching children how to cross the road safely, strapping their child into their car seat each time of fitting, and regularly checking, smoke alarms.
That’s why the theme for Child Safety Week 2012 is: Small Steps to Safety
The key messages are:
- 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.
The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT).want to encourage families to work to take small steps to safety every day means that you can help reduce the chances of their children being needlessly killed, disabled or seriously injured as a result of preventable accidents.
By supporting Child Safety Week and by working together, the thousands of early years practitioners, health professionals, road safety teams, police and fire service personnel, community organisations as well as many others who take part in Child Safety Week make a big impact on the safety of children in their community.
The Aim of Child Safety Week:
The aim of Child Safety Week is to secure a safer environment for children of all ages, so they can live life to the fullest without unnecessary hazards. It’s not about stifling children’s freedom to develop and explore or wrapping them up in cotton wool. It is about empowering parents to make small steps to safety part of their everyday routine, so that they see safety as something they can fit into their busy lives. We want to help them do more of what they do right when it comes to safety, not tell them what they are doing wrong.
On the CAPT Website you will find:
Ideas booklet: packed full of help in planning your activity, information on the accidents most likely to seriously harm children, practical safety reminders, plus quizzes and competitions for you to copy and use, to make learning fun for both adults and children.
Poster: a downloadable poster that you can print off and display at your event.
Evaluation form: tell us about the impact of your Child Safety Week activity and you could win a £50 shopping voucher plus £50 of CAPT resources.
Competitions: A poster design competition for children and a wordsearch for parents.
Quizzes: A colouring in puzzle on road safety for children and a safety quiz for parents.
For more information, please visit: http://www.childsafetyweek.org.uk/
