All resources tagged with 'home safety'

The Department for Health (DH) has launched the Health Visitor Implementation Plan.

The plan aims to introduce 4,200 new health visitors to the profession by 2015 and stresses the strong link between children’s centres and health visitors in health improvement initiatives such as child accident prevention.

For those staff working in other areas such as maternity services, primary care and early years services, the increased numbers of health visitors are good opportunities to review and strengthen partnership working arrangements.

Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) has commissioned Dr Nicola Christie, Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at Surrey University, to run a series of free master classes as part of CAPT's Making the Link project. The master classes will cover:

The National Children's Bureau (NCB) Research Centre is finalising a rapid research review on unintentional injuries in childhood.

Following the publication of the Public Health White paper – Healthy Lives Healthy People, the Department of Health (DH) have changed the scope of the NICE work programme and the guidance it produces.

Poor housing is often overlooked as a factor contributing to childhood accidents. The release of the CLG English Housing Survey in November is a good opportunity to reflect on the link between the two.

As the Lords debate fire safety, we’re looking at the value of sprinkler systems in preventing childhood injuries and deaths in home fires.

Lord Harrison’s Building Regulations (Review) Bill would ensure that the building regulations for fire sprinklers are updated based on the latest findings from studies on fire safety.

Statistics released by Communities and Local Government (CLG) at the end of August show that over 10% of social housing does not meet decent standards.

Although down on last year’s figure of 14.5%, the numbers show that one in ten families in social housing have homes that do not meet the standards. For local authority owned properties, the figure is 16.2%.

The ‘decent home’ standards state that a ‘decent home’ must be warm, weatherproof and reasonably modern.

Independent consumer guide Which? has published a guide for parents on the pros and cons of socket covers.

Which? independently tests a range of safety and nursery products, including car seats, stair gates, and pushchairs. Their advice on socket covers is broadly the same as CAPT’s – socket covers are unnecessary. Below we give you a run-down of their main points.

Good news for babies and young children - updates to the Building Regulations now mean that all new build houses will have to have Thermostatic Mixing Valves on bath taps.

On Tuesday 6 April 2010 it became compulsory to ensure that in all new homes built in England, or in buildings such as conversions where there is a substantial change of use, the hot water from the bath tap must not exceed a temperature of 48 C.