About Child Safety Week
Child Safety Week is the Child Accident Prevention Trust’s annual flagship community education campaign.
It aims to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children every year and the steps we can take to help prevent them.
Child Safety Week 2012 takes place from Monday 18 June to Sunday 24 June 2012 - so pop the date in your diary now.
Who is it for?
Child Safety Week is for anyone working with families or children. So whether you work in a nursery, children’s centre, GP surgery, school, your own home, in the community, in road or fire safety or anywhere else working with children or families, you can get involved with Child Safety Week.
The emphasis of the Week is on empowering families to take positive action rather than telling them what to do, or lecturing them about what they are doing wrong.
Accident prevention is not about restricting children or wrapping them up in cotton wool, instead it is about creating safer environments, both in the home and elsewhere, to enable children to thrive and lead a healthy active life.
Child Safety Week provides the opportunity to get this message across to parents and children in a fun and engaging way, helping parents learn how to fit safety into their busy lives.
Thousands of national and local organisations, through a series of events and activities, large and small help make Child Safety Week a great success year after year. In 2010 alone your activity helped reach around 4.3 million people directly.
Child Safety Week 2011 – Take a second look for safety
Serious accidents can cause injuries to children that take months or years to heal. The psychological damage caused to children and their families often lasts a lifetime. Yet many of these accidents could be prevented by taking taking second look to make sure that hot drink is out of reach, the bathroom cleaning products are high up or locked away, the bath is unplugged or by checking the speedometer.
That’s why this year the theme for Child Safety Week was ‘Take a second look for safety’.
We’d like to thank everyone who helped make Child Safety Week 2011 a great success and look forward to working with you all this year.