About Child Safety Week
Make time for safety
The theme for 2010 encourages practitioners, parents, families, grandparents and carers to make time for safety. Injuries from accidents can take months or years to heal, yet many of them take just a moment to prevent. Sign up to our database to stay in touch with Child Safety Week news and receive your free Child Safety week booklet and poster - join our mailing list.
Child Safety Week is the Child Accident Prevention Trust’s flagship community education campaign. It aims to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how to prevent them.
Thousands of local activities help to make Child Safety Week the great success that it is. In 2009 you reached around 6 million people through your local actvitites - both big and small. You can find some examples of the kinds of activities supporters run here.
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 safety, in fire safety or somewhere else with children or families, you can get involved with Child Safety Week.
The empahsis of the Week is on empowering families to take action rather than on 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’s about creating safer environments where children can be active and thrive. Child Safety Week provides an opportunity to get this message across to parents and children in a fun and engaging way and help parents learn how to fit safety into their busy lives.
