Summary of updated iHV resources for #ChildSafetyWeek

It’s been a busy week for Child Accident Prevention Trust’s Child Safety Week 2019 (3-9 June). The focus for the week is Family life today: where’s the risk? to highlight the new dangers facing families today from our modern lifestyles.

Throughout the week, we have been sharing updated resources for Health visitors and updated Parent Tips for families. But today, it is good to share the full list of the week’s updates with you:

Updated Parent Tips:

Go to PT - How to reduce unintentional injuries in children under 5 years (accident prevention)

Go to PT - Safety in the Home/Burns and Scalds

Go to PT - Safety in the Home/Falls

Go to PT - Staying safe in the sun

Go to PT - Safety in the home/ Water safety

Go to PT - Safety in the home/ Suffocation and strangulation

Go to PT - Preventing Choking

Updated Good Practice Points

Go to GPP - How to reduce unintentional injuries in children under five years

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2 more updated resources for parents in #ChildSafetyWeek

In our continued support of #ChildSafetyWeek, we are delighted to share 2 more updated resources for families and parents.

Continuing the week’s theme of Family life today: where’s the risk? today’s updated resources are:

Updated Parent Tips – Safety in the Home/ Suffocation and Strangulation

These Parent Tips give parents and families tips on how to reduce suffocation and strangulation as there are a number of hazards in the home which can cause suffocation or strangulation in babies and children.

Go to PT - Safety in the home/ Suffocation and strangulation

Updated Parent Tips – Preventing choking

These Parent Tips give parents and families tips on how to prevent choking. Keeping your little one safe is vitally important to all parents. Babies and small children are at high risk of choking on small items because they examine unfamiliar objects by putting them in their mouths.

Go to PT - Preventing Choking

More updated resources for parents in #ChildSafetyWeek

During #ChildSafetyWeek, we are delighted to share 2 more updated resources for families and parents.

Continuing the week’s theme of Family life today: where’s the risk? today’s updated resources are:

Updated Parent Tips – Staying Safe in the Sun

These Parent Tips give parents and families tips on how to stay safe in the sun. Sun safety is vitally important, particularly for babies and children who have delicate skin that burns easily.

Go to PT - Staying safe in the sun

Updated Parent Tips – Safety in the Home/Water Safety

These Parent Tips give parents and families tips on how to keep babies and young children safe around water. Babies can drown in just 3cm of water. For this reason it’s vitally important to never leave your baby alone in the bath, not even for a moment.

Go to PT - Safety in the home/ Water safety

Child Safety Week 4-10 June – starts today!

It’s here! Child Safety Week starts today – and runs until 10 June 2018.

Child Safety Week is run by Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) to raise awareness of the risks of child accidents and how they can be prevented. They provide a range of resources to help practitioners run local activities and events and promote safety messages in a fun and engaging way.

This year’s theme is: Safe children: together we’ve got this!

What is the theme for?

For parents it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the demands that come with family life and keeping children safe can feel very challenging.

For practitioners the reality is that there are fewer staff and less resource than ever, so child safety can seem a challenge to effectively address.

Child Safety Week is here to help simplify the issues and highlight the quick wins and most effective ways to have an impact.

The message from the theme is that by making the most of Child Safety Week and the resources CAPT produces and by working in partnership with other local agencies, we can get child safety right.

Much of the excellent work that goes on with families is about supporting them to grow in confidence and become effective parents. Feeling empowered to keep your child safe is an important and practical step towards this.

So use the theme to profile your work with families and show them that with your advice and support they can get child safety right.

Big or small, taking part in Child Safety Week will help you and the families you support to feel confident about keeping children safe. Together we HAVE got this!

Please do share your child safety activities on social media using the hashtag #ChildSafetyWeek

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