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Facts to get you thinking • Tips for putting safety first • Fun activities for all ages • Competitions and quizzes

Child Safety Week is made possible through the 

generosity of the following official supporters: 

Bitrex ® is the most bitter substance ever discovered. 

Children are particularly sensitive to bitter tastes, making 

Bitrex ® a powerful deterrent to accidental swallowing of 

harmful household chemicals 

w www.bitrex.com 

Ei Electronics is Europe’s leading manufacturer of domestic 

smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and a National 

Fire Safety Partner 

w www.eielectronics.com 

For road safety enquiries 

Department for Transport 

Great Minster House 

76 Marsham Street 

London SW1P 4DR 

t 020 7944 8300 

w www.dft.gov.uk/roadsafety 

Get in touch with your Fire and Rescue Service 

Across the country, Fire and Rescue Services are working to reduce 

fire risk and promote community safety. To support fire safety work, 

or to ask for a free home fire safety check, contact your local Fire 

and Rescue Service and ask to speak to the Community Fire Safety 

Team. You can find an online directory of contacts at 

www.fireservice.co.uk/information /offcontacts.php. 

Alternatively contact: 

National Community Fire Safety Centre 

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 

Zone 5/B, Allington Towers 

19 Allington Street, London SW1E 5EB 

t 020 7944 5695 

For health related enquiries 

Department of Health 

Customer Service Centre 

Richmond House 

79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS 

t 020 7210 4850 

e dhmail@dh.gsi.gov.uk 

w www.dh.gov.uk 

w www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk 

Child Safety Week is organised by 

Child Accident Prevention Trust 

The Scottish Accident 

Prevention Council was set 

up to co-ordinate and stimulate 

accident prevention in all facets 

of daily life in Scotland 

Scottish Accident Prevention Council 

Livingstone House 

43 Discovery Terrace 

Heriot-Watt Research Park 

Edinburgh EH14 4AP 

t 0131 449 9379 

f 0131 449 9380 

e secretary@sapc.org.uk 

w www.sapc.org.uk 

Scottish Executive Justice Department 

St Andrew’s House 

Regent Road 

Edinburgh EH1 3DG 

t 08457 741 741 

w www.scotland.gov.uk 


22-26 Farringdon Lane 

London EC1R 3AJ 

t 020 7608 3828 

f 020 7608 3674 

e safe@capt.org.uk 

w www.capt.org.uk 

w www.dti.gov.uk 

All illustrations by Annabel Tempest Design by wave www.wave.coop

Keeping children safe 

from accidents doesn’t have 

to be a big deal! 

Little things can make the difference between 

safety and serious injury – or even death. 

Nearly 300 children are admitted to 

hospital every day because of accidents, 

and tragically, nearly every day one 

child dies. Yet so many of those 

accidents can be prevented with a little 

planning and a few simple actions. 

The message for this year’s Child Safety 

Week is that everyone can be a ‘life-saver’. 

We want to encourage parents, 

grandparents, aunts, uncles, older 

brothers and sisters, neighbours 

and childminders to recognise the 

important role they can play in 

keeping children safe. 

Just by moving toys off the 

stairs or remembering never 

to pass hot drinks over the 

heads of children, you can 

protect a child from serious 

injury. Simple things like 

testing your smoke alarm every 

week or making sure you don’t 

go over the 30 mph speed limit 

in built-up areas can also make 

a huge difference. 

So help us spread the word. 

Avoid the worst and put 

child safety first. 

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Be a ‘life-saver’ by taking 

a good look at your home 

through the eyes of a child. 

That bottle of bleach may 

be in just the right place 

for little hands to grasp… 

Children are always on the 

go and it’s all too easy for 

toddlers to tumble down 

stairs or crawl on to window 

ledges. And what about the 

risk of fire? Fitting a smoke 

alarm is so much easier 

than dealing with the 

terrors of a blazing building. 

✔ ask children to role play hazards they find 

around the home – once with the accident 

happening and once with someone 

preventing the accident 

✔ get together with other local agencies 

to set up a scheme to distribute free/low 

cost safety items – like smoke alarms, 

safety gates, carbon monoxide alarms 

and window locks 

✔ contact your local fire and rescue service 

to ask about a free home fire safety check 

✔ encourage families to plan and rehearse 

escaping from their home in a fire. Children 

and teenagers can download an escape 

plan maker from www.getfirewise.gov.uk. 

Parents can get advice from 

www.firekills.gov.uk/escape/01.htm 

• fire is the biggest killer of children in the home 

• people without a working smoke alarm are 

twice as likely to die in a fire in the home 

• if a fire starts while you are asleep, your 

chances of surviving are almost zero if you 

don’t have a working smoke alarm 

• every year 28,000 under fives are rushed to 

hospital with a burn or scald 

• young children can be seriously scalded within 

seconds of turning on the hot tap in the bath 

• a baby can drown in as little as five centimetres 

(two inches) of water 

• in the bathroom, the most common cause of 

suspected poisoning is toilet cleaner and bleach 

left by the side of the toilet 

• if your gas fire, boiler or cooker is faulty, if 

your chimney is blocked, and if your home isn’t 

properly ventilated, poisonous carbon monoxide 

can build up over time which – although 

childhood deaths are very rare – can result in 

long-term damage to a child’s developing brain 

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other useful resources 

• for fire safety advice, visit 

www.firekills.gov.uk – with special 

areas for parents/carers, a free 

handbook to download plus 

contacts for your local fire and 

rescue service – and 

www.getfirewise.gov.uk – with 

fun activities for children and 

young people 

• in Wales, visit www.firebrake.org 

and in Scotland visit 

www.dontgivefireahome.com 

• for a catalogue of free resources 

available through your community 

fire safety officer, call 0870 1226 

236 and quote reference T/INF 1019 

• for information on carbon monoxide 

visit www.hse.gov.uk/gas/domestic 

/index.htm or 

www.co-gassafety.co.uk 

• for information on thermostatic 

mixing valves visit 

www.safehotwater.co.uk 

capt resources 

How safe is your child from burns and 

scalds? leaflet Code: LEA012 £9.95 per 100 

What might poison your child? leaflet 

Code: LEA011 £9.95 per 100 

How safe is your child from a serious fall? 

leaflet Code: LEA018 £9.95 per 100 

Keep your baby safe booklet on baby care and 

equipment Code: BKT001 £19.50 per 50 

I’m only a baby but…. picture-based booklet 

Code: BKT005 £30 per 50 

Now I can crawl, I can… brand-new picturebased 

booklet Code: BKT006 £30 per 50 

Handle safely leaflet for parents/carers of babies 

Code: LEA004 £9.95 per 100 

Active steps to safety leaflet for parents/carers 

of children under 5 Code: LEA005 £9.95 per 100 

Step safely with a helping hand leaflet 

for parents/carers of children aged 5 to 7 

Code: LEA006 £9.95 per 100 

Free fact sheets on falls, poisoning, 

drowning, burns and scalds, bath water 

scalds and thermostatic mixing valves 

To obtain free CAPT fact sheets and quizzes 

visit www.capt.org.uk or see page 19 

• fitting a working smoke alarm on every 

level of your home and testing it weekly 

• getting a thermostatic mixing valve 

fitted to your bath hot tap to prevent 

serious scalds 

• never leaving babies and young children 

alone in the bath 

• changing a baby on the floor because 

babies can easily wriggle off a bed, sofa 

or changing table 

• fitting locks or safety catches to stop 

windows opening too wide 

• fitting safety gates on stairs as soon 

as baby shows any sign of crawling 

• teaching everyone to put toys away, 

to help prevent falls 

• when buying household cleaners, looking 

for child-resistant caps and a bittering 

agent in the ingredients – this makes the 

cleaner taste horrible so young children 

are less likely to swallow it 

• getting boilers and heaters regularly 

serviced by a Corgi qualified engineer 

• fitting a carbon monoxide alarm with 

the BSI Kitemark in any room with a 

flame-powered heater 


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✔ arrange a teddy-bears picnic to get 

families thinking about toy safety 

and which toys are suitable for 

which age groups 

✔ ask children to create a poster 

giving advice to parents on 

choosing safe toys or the dangers 

of cigarette lighters and matches 

✔ organise an outing to the local 

skate park or off-road cycle track, 

and join forces with your local road 

safety officer to explain safe fitting 

of helmets and essential safety gear 

✔ organise an ‘egg helmet’ 

demonstration – dropping an egg 

encased in a miniature helmet – to 

show how well helmets protect 

children’s heads – contact Bicycle 

Helmet Initiative Trust on 0118 958 

3585 for helmets for your eggs 

✔ get children to create a model 

playground, with activities like 

skateboarding and cycling, and use 

this to spark discussions on safe play 

• young children can find fire fascinating but don’t 

understand its dangers – cigarette lighters and matches 

are responsible for almost one in four child deaths from 

house fires – it’s generally young children playing with 

them that causes accidents 

• baby walkers are unsafe because they enable babies to 

move very fast, they tip up quickly and babies can reach 

things that are dangerous 

• model cars, planes and trains are responsible for 4,000 

visits to A&E departments every year – many accidents 

involve children under three and are caused by small 

parts in the toys 

• 5,000 children a year are taken to A&E departments after 

hurting themselves on their bikes in parks or playgrounds 

• over half of all cycling injuries involve a head injury 

• every year, around six young children drown in garden 

ponds, with children aged one or two at most risk 

• children cannot judge speed properly and may act without 

thinking in scary situations. They need adult help with 

learning to use play equipment safely 

• 4,000 children are injured each year playing on 

trampolines. Three quarters of these injuries happen 

when there is more than one person on the trampoline 



download RoSPA’s trampoline safety factsheet 

www.rospa.org.uk/waterandleisuresafety/factsheets 

/leisure/trampoline_safety.htm 

for information on toy safety visit 

www.btha.co.uk/about_us/toy _safety.php 

for advice, activities and lesson plans for children visit 

www.staywise.co.uk 

Playtime encourages children to use 

their imagination and get fresh air 

and exercise. Make sure play-time 

is always fun-time by being one step 

ahead on safety. Check young 

children don’t choke on small parts 

of toys. And remember that simple 

things like wearing a helmet when 

cycling or skateboarding protects 

a child from serious head injuries. 


How safe are your child’s toys? leaflet 

Code: LEA002 £9.95 per 100 

How safe is your child in the garden? leaflet 

Code: LEA013 £9.95 per 100 

How safe is your child from a serious fall? 

leaflet Code: LEA018 £9.95 per 100 


Code: LEA011 £9.95 per 100 

Step safely from the edge leaflet for 

parents/carers of children aged 7 to 11, 

Code: LEA007 £9.95 per 100 

Free fact sheets on toys, playgrounds, 

drowning, baby walkers, cycling, skateboards 

and skates 



‘I have learnt more about safety and 

had lots of fun doing it. I am very proud’ 

Eleven-year-old who took part in Child Safety Week 2005 

• keeping cigarette lighters and matches 

where children can’t see them or 

reach them 

• never using baby walkers – babies can 

have nasty falls, including down stairs 

and on to fires, and can reach dangerous 

things like hot drinks 

• making sure children only play with toys 

suitable for their age – look out for a 

warning symbol telling you a toy is not 

suitable for children under 36 months. 

This means the toy contains small parts 

that can choke a small child 

• supervising young children in the 

playground – making sure they don’t walk 

in front of or jump off swings and moving 

equipment, and keep fingers and toes 

clear of moving parts 

• accompanying younger children to the 

playground, and finding out where older 

children are going to play, and practising 

the route with them so they know how to 

get there safely 

• making your garden a safe place for play 

by filling in garden ponds and keeping all 

chemicals and garden tools locked away 

• supervising children in paddling pools 

and emptying pools immediately after use 

• making sure children always wear a 

properly-fitted helmet when cycling, 

skateboarding or roller-skating 

• never allowing more than one child on a 

trampoline at the same time, and setting 

clear rules for safety 


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Think safety every time you walk your 

children to school or drive to the 

shops. By showing children examples 

of road safety from an early age – and 

making sure you observe speed limits 

and passenger regulations – you 

are laying a good foundation for 

children’s safety on our busy roads. 

✔ organise a role play on 

pedestrian safety. With 

older children, include 

hazards like talking on mobile phones 

or running across roads. Younger 

children can practise crossing roads 

holding hands with a adult, while others 

can be traffic or the lollipop person 

✔ encourage children and young people 

to check out their knowledge at: 

1. Hedgehogs at www.hedgehogs.gov.uk 

2. Arrive Alive at 

www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/arrivealive 

3. Cycle Smart at www.cyclesmart.org 

4. Cycle Sense at www.cyclesense.net 

✔ find out if there are any local schemes 

where parents can train as volunteers 

to run cycle training sessions. 

Encourage families to sign up 

✔ organise a school assembly – for 

assembly plans on road safety 

for children of all ages see 

www.rospa.org.uk/safetyeducation 

/atschool/ assembly.htm 

✔ organise a fashion show, with children 

and adults modelling protective, 

reflective and fluorescent clothing, 

and ask your road safety officer to lead 

a discussion on being safe and seen 

• if hit by a car travelling at 40mph, around 80% of 

child pedestrians will die. If hit by a car travelling 

at 30mph around 80% will survive 

• seven out of ten drivers admit to regularly breaking 

the speed limit in built-up areas 

• drivers need to be aware that, despite their growing 

independence, children between eight and 11 still 

find it hard to judge speeds and distances. Even if 

they know their Green Cross Code, children are 

easily distracted and may rush across roads if they 

spot friends 

• in 2004, 289 children under 10 were seriously injured 

and 20 killed as car passengers on British roads 

• over half of all road injuries to under fives are due 

to being a passenger in a car 

• most car accidents happen within a short distance of 

home – with morning and afternoon school runs the 

peak times for passenger accidents involving children 

• 70% of all cycling deaths involve a head injury 

• cycle helmets reduce the risk of serious head injury 

by 85% but fewer than one in five child cyclists 

wear them 



• advice and resources from the 

Department for Transport at 

www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk – including 

information on the new child car 

seat regulations 

• for a catalogue of free Department for 

Transport child road safety resources 

call 0870 1226 236 and quote reference 

T/INF 1019 

• RoSPA provides information 

and resources on road safety. 

Visit www.rospa.com and 

www.childcarseats.org.uk or call 

0121 248 2000 

• Brake organises Road Safety Week 

and produces resources. 

Visit www.brake.org.uk and 

www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk or call 

01484 559909 

• the Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust 

promotes cycle helmet wearing – see 

www.bhit.org 

• in Scotland, contact Road Safety Scotland 

at www.road-safety.org.uk for a range of 

educational resources 


It’s fun to go out but… brand-new picture-based 

booklet on child road safety by CAPT in association 

with Department for Transport – free from DfT by 

calling 0870 1226 236 and quoting reference 

T/INF 1107 

How safe is your child in the car? leaflet 

Code: LEA015 £9.95 per 100 

Step safely with a helping hand leaflet for 

parents/carers of children aged 5 to 7 

Code: LEA006 £9.95 per 100 

Step safely from the edge leaflet for 

parents/carers of children aged 7 to 11 

Code: LEA007 £9.95 per 100 

It’s a safety thing leaflet for young people 

Code: LEA008 £9.95 per 100 

Free fact sheets on child road accidents, 

child pedestrians, cycle accidents and child 

car restraints 



‘We held child car seat clinics 

throughout the Week, with 

demonstrations on how to fit child 

car seats correctly’ 

Road safety officer taking part in Child Safety Week 2005 

• setting a good example by observing 

road safety yourself, and teaching 

children about road safety every time 

you go out together 

• holding young children’s hands in car 

parks or near to reversing cars, as even 

slow moving cars can be dangerous 

• making sure children wear light 

coloured clothes with reflective 

armbands or strips on dark mornings 

and evenings, so they can be seen 

by drivers 

• making sure children wear a properly 

-fitting helmet when cycling 

• using a car seat on every journey, no 

matter how short, and ensuring the seat 

is properly fitted and matches the age 

and weight of your child 

• finding out what the new regulations on 

child car seats will mean for you – they 

are due to come into force from 

September 2006 


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Mealtimes should be a 

happy time for families 

to get together, enjoy 

their food and catch up 

with each other’s news. 

Make sure you follow 

simple safety rules like 

never passing hot drinks 

over a child’s head, 

watching chip pans at all 

times – and keeping all 

those ‘tempting’ things 

that may poison or choke 

children well out of 

harm’s way. 

✔ contact your local fire and 

rescue service and ask them to 

demonstrate what happens when 

hot fat catches fire. Hold a quiz 

on fire safety and offer a deep fat 

fryer as a prize 

✔ get parents talking by showing 

CAPT’s Fancy a cuppa? video 

about preventing scalds from 

hot drinks 

✔ create a roleplay with older 

children around preparing and 

serving meals and hot drinks. 

Get them to identify safety issues 

as they go along 

✔ create a ‘devil’s sweetshop’ by 

sticking a mixture of colourful 

sweets and tablets to a board with 

numbers underneath – then get 

parents to distinguish the sweets 

from the tablets 

• over half of all accidental house fires happen because 

of cooking – that’s 27,000 fires in a year 

• chip pans and hot fat pans are the most common cause of 

house fires in which children are injured 

• every year more than 6,500 children are rushed to A&E 

departments because of scalds from kettles and hot drinks 

• hot drinks can scald young children 15 minutes after they 

have been made 

• if your gas cooker or central heating boiler is faulty and 

your kitchen isn’t properly ventilated, carbon monoxide can 

build up over time 

• low levels of poisonous carbon monoxide gas can cause 

headaches, sleepiness and concentration problems, 

resulting in long-term damage to a child’s developing brain 

• babies and young toddlers have not learnt how to time their 

breathing with chewing and swallowing food or drink, so are 

at greatest risk of choking 

• if you take tablets at mealtimes be careful that children 

don’t copy you. 20 children are admitted to hospital each 

day due to suspected poisoning, with common drugs like 

pain-killers responsible for a quarter of all accidents 

• child-resistant caps are useful but they are not child-proof 

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• for a catalogue of free resources 

available through your community 

fire safety officer, call 

0870 1226 236 and quote 

reference T/INF 1019 

• download the cooking safety 

checklist from the Fire Kills 

website www.firekills.gov.uk/ 

cooking/01.htm 

and encourage parents to check 

how safe their kitchens are 

• for information on carbon 

monoxide visit 

www.hse.gov.uk/gas/ 

domestic/index.htm or 

www.co-gassafety.co.uk 

‘I didn’t know that a baby’s skin 

is 15 times thinner 

Mother who took part in Child Safety Week 2005 

How safe is your child from burns and 

scalds? leaflet Code: LEA012, £9.95 per 100 

Fancy a cuppa? video resource pack 

for practitioners to use with parents and carers, 

Code: VID001 (standard video) £45.83, 

Code: VID002 (loop video) £69.33 

Fancy a cuppa? flyer 

Code: FLY001, £7.95 per 100 

Hot drinks can hurt me colour poster 

Code: POS011, £1.95 each or five for £8.95 


Code: LEA011 £9.95 per 100 

Safe in their hands? leaflet 

with home safety advice for relatives and friends 

who look after children on a regular basis, 

Code: LEA003, £9.95 per 100 

Free fact sheets on burns and scalds, choking, 

poisoning 



than an adult’s or how long a hot drink takes to cool – so I have learnt’ 

• staying in the kitchen while you are 

frying chips or other food because hot 

oil catches fire really quickly 

• never filling your pan more than one 

third full of oil – or, better still, replacing 

your chip pan with a deep fat fryer or 

using oven chips – it’s much safer! 

• turning saucepan handles towards the 

back of the cooker and using back rings 

where possible 

• using a kettle with a short or curly flex 

and keeping it back from the edge of the 

work top 

• never passing hot drinks over children’s 

heads and never holding a young child 

and a hot drink at the same time 

• making sure your baby or toddler 

is strapped into their high chair with 

a five point harness, so they can’t 

fall out 

• never leaving a baby alone with a bottle 

and never putting food in a baby’s bottle 

• always supervising young children at 

mealtimes and never giving peanuts 

to children under six 

• keeping medicines out of children’s sight 

and reach, so children don’t mistake 

them for sweets or drinks 

• fitting a carbon monoxide alarm with 

the BSI Kitemark in a kitchen with a 

gas cooker 


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✔ create a display for your reception 

area on the water safety code. 

For details of the code visit 

www.rospa.com/waterandleisure 

safety/youngpeople/index.htm 

✔ encourage children to test their 

water safety knowledge in the 

quizzes and games at 

www.nc.uk.net/safeswimming/ 

and www.beachsafety.org.uk 

✔ work with children and families 

to create an eye-spy type activity 

sheet to use on days out to places 

like the beach, countryside or 

park. Combine things to spot with 

hazards to watch out for, eg ‘ivy’ 

which has poisonous berries, 

‘red flag’ which means it isn’t safe 

to swim 

✔ teach children the meaning of 

warning signs near water and 

warning flags at beaches 

• every year, around 20 children and young people drown at 

the seaside or in rivers, canals, lakes and flooded gravel pits 

• no-one should swim in canals, rivers or flooded gravel pits 

because there may be dangerous objects under the water. 

Sudden changes of depth and water temperature also create 

a considerable risk 

• swim jackets and armbands are not a substitute for adult 

supervision. Children may remove them and slip into the 

water very quickly 

• in the last ten years, 45 children have died on farms and 

more than 400 have been seriously injured. While most 

deaths were of children living on farms, others were of 

children playing unsupervised or trespassing on farms 

• farms are workplaces not playgrounds. Children can be run 

over by tractors and trailers, trampled by large animals, and 

drown in slurry lagoons and grain stores. Nasty injuries can 

happen during falls from haystacks, and children are at risk 

from dangerous chemicals in bottles, bags and sheep dips 

• falling asleep at the wheel accounts for as many as one in 

ten of all crashes on Britain’s roads 

• if the driver falls asleep at the wheel, the car’s occupants 

are 50% more likely to die or suffer serious injury, because 

a sleeping driver does not react before a crash 



• It’s a safety thing leaflet for young people 

Code: LEA008 £9.95 per 100 

Free fact sheets on drowning and playgrounds 



Whether it’s a visit to the pool, 

a trip to the beach or an outing 

to the countryside, don’t let an 

accident spoil the fun. Away 

from home and having a good 

time, it’s all too easy for 

children to get out of their 

depth, wander into danger or 

take unnecessary risks… And 

make sure that, at the end of a 

long day out, you’re not the one 

putting the family in danger by 

nodding off at the wheel. Don’t 

forget to stop for breaks. It’s 

better to arrive late than not 

arrive at all! 


• free CD education packs on water safety – for the 

pack for 7 to 11s contact the Environment Agency 

on 08708 506 506, for the pack for 12 to 16s 

contact RoSPA on 0121 248 2000 or visit 

www.rospa.com/waterandleisuresafety 

/ruadummy2.htm 

• websites with advice on water safety at 

www.nc.uk.net/safeswimming/ and beach 

safety at www.beachsafety.org.uk 

• RoSPA facts sheets on water safety at 

www.rospa.com/waterandleisuresafety/ 

• download a leaflet with farm safety advice for 

children aged 7 to 11 from 

www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/CSLChild72dpi.pdf 

and find more farm safety resources for children at 

www.hseni.gov.uk/kids.cfm 

• to download a fact sheet on driver tiredness visit 

www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/advice/drivertiredness 

01.htm and for RoSPA’s safer journey planner visit 

www.rospa.com/roadsafety/info/safer_journey.pdf 

• for free leaflets on avoiding fire afloat contact the 

community fire safety team of your local fire and 

rescue service – visit www.firekills.gov.uk for 

contact details for all fire and rescue services 

in England 

• for advice, activities and lesson plans for children 

visit www.staywise.co.uk 

• never leaving children, especially babies 

and toddlers, unsupervised near water 

• encouraging children to swim in safe 

places like public swimming pools, 

where there are trained lifeguards 

• keeping a careful eye on children 

playing in the countryside to avoid 

falls from haystacks or accidents with 

farm machinery 

• making sure all children wear 

sunscreen, and sunhats covering 

the back of their necks 

• teaching children never to eat plants 

or berries without showing them to 

you first, and making sure they can 

recognise common harmful plants 

• having a good night’s sleep before 

setting out on a long journey and 

planning your journey so you have time 

for a 15 minute break after every two 

hours of driving 

• making sure children know what to do if 

they are in danger or get lost while away 

from home, including how to dial 999 


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Two quizzes for parents and carers 

Bundles of energy! 

1 You are taking your child to the 

shops. What is the best way to keep 

them safe: 

a Asking them to walk behind you? 

b Telling them before you leave home 

that they must stay close to you? 

c Holding their hand all the time? 

2 What is the safest way to make 

sure children aren’t poisoned by 

cleaning products? 

a Keeping them on the kitchen 

surfaces? 

b Keeping them in a locked 

cupboard, or on high shelves 

well out of reach? 

c Buying products with child-resistant 

lids and keeping them by the toilet? 

Growing kids 

Quiz for parents and carers 

of babies and children under five 

One minute they’re tiny babies and the next they’re active bundles of energy 

– fascinated by everything around them. Unfortunately babies and young 

children have no sense of danger, so it’s up to adults to make sure they don’t 

come to harm as they explore their world. Test your safety knowledge by 

trying our quiz. Put a circle round the answer you choose. 

3 If your baby isn’t sleeping, it’s a 

good idea to curl up with them 

on the sofa for a nap together 

a True? 

b False? 

4 The doorbell rings while you’re 

bathing a small child. You know it’s 

the delivery person with the parcel 

you’ve been waiting for all week. 

Do you: 

a Tell the child to cover their ears as 

loud noises can be frightening? 

b Wrap the child in a large, warm 

towel and take them with you to the 

door? 

c Tell the child to sit perfectly still 

until you get back? 

Quiz for parents and carers 

of children aged five to eleven 

Healthy growing children are keen to be active and independent. But 

make sure their experiences are happy ones by being there to supervise 

and teach them safe ways of doing things – until they are old enough 

to make safe decisions for themselves. Test your safety knowledge by 

trying our quiz. Put a circle round the answer you choose. 

5 How many babies and young 

children are rushed to hospital 

with scalds caused by kettles 

or hot drinks? 

a 18 a day? 

b 18 a week? 

c 18 a month? 

6 Baby walkers are 

a A great way of encouraging baby 

to start walking? 

b Safe because they can’t tip over? 

c Unsafe because babies can get 

into danger and have nasty falls? 

How did you score? You 

can find the answers to 

both quizzes on page 18 

of this booklet. 

For more quizzes and 

games to test your safety 

knowledge, visit the 

Child Accident 

Prevention Trust’s 

website www.capt.org.uk 

5 Where is the safest place for an 

eight-year-old child to swim? 

a In the local canal? 

b At the public swimming pool 

where there is a lifeguard on duty? 

c With their friends at the seaside? 

1 Buying a second-hand child 

car seat is a good idea 

a True? 

b False? 

2 How often should you check the 

batteries in your smoke alarms? 

a Once a year? 

b Once a month? 

c Once a week? 

3 Children are ready to be allowed 

to walk to school alone when they 

have learnt the rules of the Green 

Cross Code off by heart 

a True? 

b False? 

4 A child of eight is safe to cycle 

alone in traffic 

a True? 

b False? 

6 If you fall asleep at the wheel 

while driving your children along 

the motorway, what is most likely 

to happen? 

a The car will roll gently to a 

standstill on the hard shoulder? 

b Your family are twice as likely to 

be killed or seriously injured? 

c You will wake up immediately and 

steer out of danger? 


Two quizzes 

for children 

Spot the difference! 

Look at the two pictures of a teenage boy crossing the 

road. One of these teenagers is crossing the road 

safely but one is doing lots of dangerous things. How 

many dangerous things can you spot? Which of these 

teenagers do you think is crossing the road safely? 

Colour in the pictures after you have finished. 

Safety Reminder: 

Children under the 

age of nine should 

always have an 

adult with them 

when they are 

crossing the road. 

Maybe you’ll spot some 

other dangerous things 

we missed! It’s always 

important to look 

carefully before you 

cross the road – and 

to use your ears as well 

to listen for cars. 

A 

B 

Safety scramble! 

Don’t get in a muddle with safety. Unscramble the 

words below to find the best ways to keep yourself 

and your family and friends safe from harm. 

1 Never leave these burning when there’s 

no-one in the room – or you might start a fire 

E A C D L N S 

2 You should always wear one of these when you 

are skateboarding or cycling 

L M E T E H 

3 If you’re doing this when you cross the road 

you won’t be able to see cars coming 

X T G N T E I 

4 You should never swim if you see this at 

the seaside 

G L A D R E F 

5 This will warn you if a fire has started in 

your home 

R A M K A M L O E S 

6 It’s always safer to bounce alone on one of these 

M T A E O L N R I P 

Answers 

Safety scramble! Answers: 1 Candles 2 Helmet 3 Texting 4 Red flag 5 Smoke alarm 6 Trampoline 

Spot the difference! Answers: The teenage boy in picture B is in danger because: 

• It is not safe to cross behind parked cars • He should be using a safe crossing place like the zebra crossing – which the teenage boy in Picture 

A is doing • He is texting on his mobile and not looking out for cars • He can’t hear traffic coming because he is wearing headphones • His dog is 

pulling him into the road • He is about to walk out in front of a bike 


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Competition for children and young people 

Win one of 12 £20 vouchers to spend on CDs, 

DVDs, books or colouring sets! 

What we want you to do 

Please draw or paint a picture of an ordinary person 

doing something simple to stop an accident happening 

to a child. It can be an accident in the house, in the 

garden, on the road or somewhere like the park. 

Remember to write your name and age on the back 

of your picture. Send your completed entry in an 

envelope with the form below to: 

Picture competition, 

Child Accident Prevention Trust, 

22-26 Farringdon Lane, London EC1R 3AJ 

Closing date: Friday 8 September 2006 

Winners will be notified by 9 October 2006 

We will choose four winners in each age group. 

Winning pictures may be used in a calendar to be 

produced by the Child Accident Prevention Trust. 

Some guidelines to follow 

When you decide what to draw or paint please 

follow these things: 

• Make sure it is something which someone 

you know – like your mum, dad, carer, older 

brother or sister – could do in an everyday 

situation. 

• We want simple things which people can do 

in everyday places, such as around the home, 

garden, street, schoolyard or the park. 

• Make sure that the person who is preventing 

the child from getting hurt isn’t doing 

anything dangerous themselves! 

• If the situation you are thinking of is 

something that would be best done by an 

‘expert’ like a firefighter or the police or 

ambulance service then have another think – 

and choose a different everyday situation. 

• Think about the action that person needs to 

take to stop this accident happening in the 

first place and draw or paint them doing 

that action. 

For example, you might draw a picture of a 

person putting away bottles of bleach in a high 

place where a child can’t reach them and 

poison themselves. Or someone showing a 

child how to use the zebra crossing instead 

of crossing between parked cars. 

You can see the sort of things we are thinking 

of by looking at the picture on this page. 

There are three age groups for this competition: • Age 5-7 • Age 8-11 • Age 12-14 

Please print clearly in BLOCK CAPITALS 

name 

Please tell us why you enjoyed taking part in Child Safety Week 

(this is not part of the competition – we just want to know what you think!) 

I enjoyed taking part in Child Safety Week because: 

address 

postcode 

telephone 


Be a safety sleuth – and win a package of 

pampering products. Ten treats to be won 

Competition for parents and carers 

S N A P P I H C P S 

T E B A L C O N Y E 

E P A C H W T T A H 

L D E U L C W O N C 

B S N P D W A M E T 

A D D O H H T E O A 

T E C F P E E H L M 

N M B T C P R L A B 

O L N E R D M E W O 

R E T A W P E E D T 

I C A N D L E S O C 

Please print clearly in BLOCK CAPITALS 

name 

address 

telephone 

postcode 

Please tell us why you enjoyed taking part in Child Safety Week 

(this is not part of the competition – we just want to know what you think!) 

I enjoyed taking part in Child Safety Week because: 

cup of tea 

balcony 

deep water 

matches 

chip pans 

hot water 

pond 

bleach 

iron tablets 

candles 

It’s easy to put child safety first when you 

know how to look for hidden hazards. 

Looking at the world through a child’s eyes 

is a good starting point. What hazards can 

you find around your home? Is that kettle 

so near the edge that a toddler could easily 

pull it on top of themselves? And what 

about the garden? Is that bottle of weed 

killer put away safely, or left out 

somewhere where a child could mistake 

it for a bottle of fizzy drink? 

Don’t forget that some of the things 

we use every day as adults can be 

dangerous to children. Matches and lighters 

left lying around can be tempting toys for 

young hands. And if your toddler swallows 

three or four of your high-dose iron tablets, 

they can suffer serious poisoning. 

As children become more independent, 

there are different hazards you need to look 

out for. Is your child really ready to walk to 

school alone, or cycle on the roads? And 

how aware are they of the risks of playing 

near canals or railway lines? 

Enter our wordsearch competition and 

find ten hidden hazards that can threaten 

a child’s safety at home or out and about. 

Clues may be upside down, back to front 

or diagonal (on the slant). Circle the words 

in the grid and send them, together with 

the form, to the address below. 

Closing date: Friday 8 September 2006 

Winners will be notified by 9 October 2006 

Send your completed entry in an envelope to: 

Wordsearch competition, 

Child Accident Prevention Trust, 



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For more quizzes and 

games to test your safety 

knowledge, visit the Child 

Accident Prevention Trust’s 

website www.capt.org.uk 

ANSWERS: Growing kids 

ANSWERS: Bundles of energy! 

Q1: c – Young children are easily distracted and 

can run off without warning. It is important 

to hold their hand at all times when you are 

on the pavement or crossing the road. 

Q2: b – Even when you buy products with childresistant 

lids, you still need to keep them well out 

of reach and sight of young children. Remember 

that child-resistant does not mean child-proof. 

Many young children are poisoned every year by 

cleaning products they find kept by the toilet. 

Q3: false – You should never fall asleep with your 

baby on the sofa. You could end up suffocating or 

crushing them. 

Q4: b – If you really have to answer the door then 

it’s best to take the child with you. You should 

never leave a young child alone in the bath 

because they can very easily slip beneath the 

water and drown. They can also play with the bath 

tap and be badly scalded by hot water. It only takes 

a few seconds for a child to drown or suffer a 

serious burn. 

Q5: a – Hot drinks are the number one cause of 

scald injuries among young children. Every year, 

over 6,500 children under five are rushed to 

hospital because of scalds from kettles and hot 

drinks. Because the skin of a young child is so 

much thinner than an adult’s, a mug of hot drink 

can scald a young child 15 minutes after it has 

been made. 

Q6: c – Baby walkers are unsafe because they 

can easily tip over and babies can fall into fires 

or down stairs. Because of the weight of the 

walker the injury will probably be quite a nasty 

one. Baby walkers also allow babies to reach 

things that are harmful. And they don’t help babies 

learn to walk – in fact, they may delay a baby’s 

normal development. 

Q1: false – Buying a second-hand child car seat 

isn’t recommended because it may have been 

damaged in an accident or may have parts 

missing. The problem may not be obvious 

until your car is in an accident and the car 

seat doesn’t protect your child properly. 

Q2: c – A smoke alarm can’t protect your family 

from fire if it isn’t working. Test that the batteries 

in your smoke alarms are working once a week. 

Q3: false – Learning the Green Cross Code is an 

important part of road safety but it doesn’t mean 

that a child is ready to make journeys alone. You 

need to make sure that the child is old enough to 

judge the speed and distance of cars and won’t be 

easily distracted if unexpected things happen. You 

should always walk routes with children first to 

make sure they are aware of the hazards and 

ready to cope with them alone. 

Q4: false – Traffic-coping skills are complex 

and children do not have the ability to judge speed, 

distance and danger accurately until about the age 

of 11. Parks, gardens and other play areas away 

from traffic are the safest places for children to 

cycle until they have learnt to control a bike and 

understand cycle safety. 

Q5: b – A public swimming pool is the best place 

for a child to swim because the depth and 

temperature of the water are controlled, there 

are no hidden hazards and there will usually be 

trained lifeguards around if they get into trouble. 

But you still need to supervise young children in 

the water at all times – they can slip beneath the 

water very quickly and silently if they get into 

difficulties. 

Q6: b – If you fall asleep at the wheel, your family 

is twice as likely to be killed or seriously injured. 

That’s because, if you are asleep, you can’t react 

and have no chance of steering or braking to avoid 

the danger. 


Resources for Child Safety Week 

You can see details of all our 

publications in our publications list. 

You can view full colour samples of all 

our leaflets and booklets by visiting 

our website at www.capt.org.uk. 

You can obtain a sample copy of any of 

our leaflets or booklets by either sending 

us a £1.14 stamped SAE or calling our hotline 

on 09065 151 436. Please state clearly which leaflets and 

booklets you wish to receive. (Calls to the hotline cost £1.50 

per minute from BT landlines; calls from mobiles and some 

other networks may be higher.) 

Extra Child Safety Week ideas booklets and mailings 

You can order up to 10 extra copies of the ideas booklet 

for free, when you place an order for other CAPT resources. 

Just add the code CSWIB001 to your order form and state 

how many copies of the booklet you need. 

We can also provide extra copies of both the Child Safety 

Week ideas booklet and the Child Safety Week mailing in 

bulk for you to distribute through your networks – you just 

pay for carriage. Please call us on 020 7608 7368 for details. 

Please use the form overleaf to place your order… 

and order early to beat the rush! We must receive your 

order by Monday 12 June to guarantee delivery for 

Child Safety Week. 

Child Safety Week poster 

CSWPOS001 10 A2 posters for £6 

CSWPOS002 20 A2 posters for £10 

Topic leaflets 

LEA002 How safe are your child’s toys? £9.95 per 100 

LEA003 Safe in their hands? (tips for family and 

friends) £9.95 per 100 

LEA011 What might poison your child? £9.95 per 100 

LEA012 How safe is your child from burns and 

scalds? £9.95 per 100 

LEA013 How safe is your child in the garden? 

£9.95 per 100 

LEA015 How safe is your child in the car? 

£9.95 per 100 

LEA018 How safe is your child from a serious fall? 

£9.95 per 100 

FLY001 Fancy a cuppa? (preventing hot drinks scalds) 

£7.95 per 100 

Age-related leaflets 

LEA004 Handle safely (babies) £9.95 per 100 

LEA005 Active steps to safety (under 5s) £9.95 per 100 

LEA006 Step safely with a helping hand (5 to 7s) 

£9.95 per 100 

LEA007 Step safely from the edge (7 to 11s) 

£9.95 per 100 

LEA008 It’s a safety thing! (11 to 14s) £9.95 per 100 

Age-related booklets 

BKT001 Keep your baby safe £19.50 per 50 

BKT005 I’m only a baby but… £30 per 50 

BKT006 NEW! Now I can crawl I can… £30 per 50 

Posters and charts 

POS006 Step safely from the edge £1.95 each, 

£8.95 for 5 

POS007 It’s a safety thing! £1.95 each, £8.95 for 5 

POS010 One moment can change everything £1.95 

each, £8.95 for 5 

POS011 Hot drinks can hurt me £1.95 each, £8.95 for 5 

CH001 Accident alert! wallchart (A3 flat for display) 

£29.25 per 25 

CH001 Accident alert! wallchart (A3 folded to fit child 

health record books) £29.25 per 25 

Stocks of the first two posters are low. Please 

call us on 020 7608 7368 before ordering 

Videos 

VID001 

VID002 


(standard format) £45.83 


(loop format) £69.33 

Child Safety Week starter pack 

CSWP001 

£7.95. Contains: 

1 Child Safety Week poster 

1 One moment can change everything! poster 

1 Hot drinks can hurt me! poster 

1 Active steps to safety poster 

1 Accident alert! wallchart 

2 copies of each topic leaflet (details on left) 

2 copies of each age-related leaflet 

(details on left) 

1 copy of each age-related booklet 

(details on left) 

Free resources 

For free copies of It’s fun to go out but… the brand-new 

picture-based booklet on child road safety by CAPT in 

association with the Department for Transport, call the 

Free Literature Service on 0870 1226 236 and quote 

reference number T/INF 1107 

For a catalogue of free child road safety and fire safety 

resources, call the Free Literature Service on 0870 1226 236 

and quote reference number T/INF 1019 

Free fact sheets 

You can download copies of all our fact sheets by visiting 

our website at www.capt.org.uk. If you don’t have internet 

access, you can obtain free CAPT fact sheets by sending us 

a 47p stamped SAE. Please state clearly which fact sheets 

you wish to receive, from the list below: 

• Baby walkers 

• Cycle safety 

• Bath water scalds 

• Drowning 

• Burns and scalds 

• Falls in the home 

• Child accident facts 

• Home accidents 

• Child car restraints 

• Playground accidents 

• Child pedestrians 

• Poisoning 

• Child road crashes 

• Skateboards and 

• Children and their accidents in-line skates 

• Choking 

• Thermostatic mixing valves 

• Toys and accidents 

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