Child Safety Week 2013
Date: 30 May 2013
Child Safety Week - 24th - 30th June 2013
Maybe you don’t think you can be a Safety Hero by just moving your hot drink away from little hands but you are!
Every day 45 babies and toddlers are rushed to casualty with a hot drink scald. Hot drinks can inflict serious injuries and can scar for life.
Pledge three simple actions:
It’s a fact that you don’t need super human powers to prevent burns and scalds. That’s why, this Child Safety Week, we are encouraging everyone to pledge three simple actions to protect children from suffering the physical and emotional pain of a serious accident.
Why not run a burns and scalds awareness campaign for your Child Safety Week activity? Our resources make it super easy!
Tips and resources:
Burns and scalds awareness top tips and resources:
- Download our free Child Safety Week resources – our poster features a close call with a hot drink, pages 8 and 9 of the ideas booklet have burns and scalds facts, safety tips and activity ideas, and our quizzes will help to get the discussion going.
- Get parents together for a burns and scalds session. CAPT’s DVD resource pack Too hot to handle includes three ready-made sessions on burns and scalds prevention.
- Make sure you have information that parents can take home by ordering flyers or leaflets to give out. You can also order burns and scalds posters to display around your centre. You can buy online from the CAPT shop.
- Ask parents to pledge to prevent burns and scalds – they can print out pledge forms and award parents with their own Safety Hero certificate to take home.
- Why not encourage a parent-led pledge on hot drinks safety in your setting? Our case study shows you how.
- Be sure to recognise parents and colleagues who go that extra mile to prevent burns and scalds. Please go to the Nominate a Safety Hero page and tell us about them.
- Good luck with your burns and scalds activity. Don’t forget to tell us what you’re doing!
