Safe At Home - National Home Safety Equipment Scheme
Archived: 2011
The Safe At Home National Home Safety Equipment Scheme was a major initiative to help families keep their children safe from home accidents. The main focus of the national scheme was to provide home safety equipment to the most disadvantaged families in areas with the highest accident rates. This is because children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to suffer accidental injuries or deaths. Children of parents who are long-term unemployed or who have never worked are 13 times more likely to die as a result of unintentional injury and 37 times more likely to die from exposure to smoke, fire or flames than children of parents in higher managerial or professional occupations.
Safe At Home was not just about equipment, though. Over the two years of its existence the aim was to provide families with information and support that helped them to make their homes safer environments in which they and their children can live and grow. The information on this site linked to activities provided by local schemes aimed at equipping all parents with the skills to keep their children safe.
This site has two main areas. The "Information for Families" pages provided families with up-to-date information on how they can keep their homes and their children safe, as well as highlighting whether schemes were operating in their area and providing details of eligibility and equipment available. The schemes' pages provided local partners with all the details of how to apply, whether there was an allocation of equipment for an area, details of training and downloadable versions of all the documentation necessary to run the scheme.
To find out how the scheme affected real people, read the Safe At Home case study [News & Press].
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