More than £1.5m has been paid out in compensation to children injured due to ‘basic health and safety failings’ in Greater Manchester schools in the last five years. A pupil at a school in Rochdale was awarded £8,000 after being struck by falling goal posts and a...

Electrical Safety First has worked with award winning comedian and actor David Walliams to bring Charley the cat and his hapless owner out of the 80s and into the 21st century for another adventure. Every year 350,000 people are injured by the everyday use of...

Last year, 200 people died in fires in their home. You are four times more likely to die in a fire in the home if there are no working smoke alarms. It’s not good enough to just have smoke alarms. It’s imperative that they work, and you can only be sure they work by...

Child Safety Media are delighted to announce a special agreement with the Metropolitan Police Service.  The move from primary to secondary school is an important time for every child. The Metropolitan Police Service Junior Citizen child safety events encourage young...

One in three youngsters leaving primary education is obese and a national plan to tackle the problem is absent, a study says. The lack of a national policy to ensure children become more active is a form of mass child neglect, according to a new study.  It claims that...

Greater Manchester Police has unveiled the latest recruits that have been drafted in to help keep people safe during the festive period. Pupils from St Edmund’s RC Primary School, in Miles Platting, Manchester have joined officers to give vital crime prevention advice...

We must do more to improve our children’s health – this is the call for action from the Chief Medical Officer for England in her latest Annual Report. In a hard-hitting analysis, Dame Sally Davies has set out the main challenges for all of us. The extensive report...

Child Safety Media welcomes the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report ‘Our Children Deserve Better: Prevention Pays’ and in particular its focus on the health and wellbeing of children and young people. As the Chief Medical Officer notes, what happens early in life...

Crucial Crew is a multi-agency safety event aimed at Year 6, (10 to 11 year olds), designed to provide children with life skills that will, in the future, help to keep themselves and others safe. It is generally accepted that children start to become more independent...

A new survey, commissioned by legal experts Slater and Gordon and the Anti-Bullying Alliance, reveals that over half of children and young people in England (55.2%) accept cyber-bullying as part of everyday life, yet parents and teachers, the people they are likely to...