About Child Safety Week
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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.
The ‘Make time for safety’ theme
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 can be prevented by taking just a moment, to move a hot drink, check a smoke alarm, lock the medicine cabinet, switch off the dryer or take your foot off the accelerator.
That’s why the theme for 2010 was ‘make time for safety’.
The ‘Time Pledge’
More children end up in hospital because they’ve been seriously hurt in an accident than any other cause. Many of these accidents can take just a moment to prevent.
In 2010 we asked everyone who cares about children – parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, childminders, foster carers - to pledge some time and help stop the children you care about being hurt in a serious accident. Over 1500 people pledged their time online, and many more pledged time at Child Safety Week events up and down the country. We’d like to thank everyone who helped make Child Safety Week 2010 a great success.