Child Safety Education Coalition

CSEC project manager John Vallender, said: “Unintentional injuries cut short and affect the lives of far too many of our children.

“CSEC passionately believes that as they grow up, children should have opportunities to learn valuable skills to enable them to develop a confidence in risk management that will benefit them throughout life.”

“We hope that organisations which affirm our mission will join the coalition so we can share knowledge and promote the expansion of high-quality practical safety education, and ultimately reduce the number of children who are seriously affected by unintentional injuries.”

CSEC objectives
To define, audit, develop, manage, promote and support ‘high quality practical safety education’ in England. In order to achieve these, member organisations will work together to:

CSEC Resource links include:

· Unintended Injury
· Management of Risk
· Safety Education
· Safeguarding
· Road and Transport Safety
· Drowning
· Poisoning
· Burns and Scalds
· Trips and Falls

For further information on the Child Safety Education Coalition @ http://www.csec.org.uk/index.asp

Natural England

They say

Natural England’s purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved in their surroundings.

Our broad remit means that our reach extends across the country. We work with people such as farmers, town and country planners, researchers and scientists, and the general public on a range of schemes and initiatives.

Put simply, our aim is to create a better natural environment that covers all of our urban, country and coastal landscapes, along with all of the animals, plants and other organisms that live with us.

If you are a parent or teacher looking for places to visit in the UK Natural England’s website has a good search facility where you can refine and select the type of place that you would like your children to get to know and understand better.

Amenities

Habitats

Additional resources include searches for local:

As well as national resources i.e Visit a National Nature Reserve.

The also has additional resources for lessons.

Find out more about Natural England @ http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/

Bike Ability

They say

Bikeability is the Cycling Proficiency Test for the 21st century, designed to give the next generation the skills and confidence to ride their bikes on today’s roads. There are three Bikeability levels and children will be encouraged and inspired to achieve all three levels, recognising that there is always more to learn and to enjoy on a bike.

Has a number of online resources, lesson plan and activity sheets, games…

Useful resource for:

For further information on Bike Ability @ http://www.bikeability.org.uk/

Kerbcraft Logo

They Say

Kerbcraft is a practical child pedestrian training scheme, developed in Drumchapel, Glasgow, by Professor James Thomson at the University of Strathclyde. It is designed to teach pedestrian skills to 5 to 7 year olds, by means of practical road-side training rather than teaching in the classroom. It is built around teaching three skills:- choosing safe places and routes; crossing safely at parked cars and crossing safely near junctions. These skills are taught over the course of at least 12 roadside sessions. Children are taught in the road environment near their schools, in pairs or groups of three children, by trained volunteers.

This website provides information for existing Kerbcraft Co-ordinators; for those interested in setting up a new scheme in a local authority, school or other establishment, and for anyone interested in learning more about Kerbcraft.

Official Kerbcraft resources, funded by the Department for Transport, can be found in the Resources Section of this website, and materials developed by Kerbcraft schemes around the country can be found in the Example Materials Section. The Information Section provides a wealth of additional information and advice notes to help with the set up, funding and running of Kerbcraft. The Kerbcraft Pilot Section provides information and evaluation reports on the national pilot of Kerbcraft, which ran from 2002 to 2007.

The Kerbcraft website has the following available in the resources part of their website, especially useful for schools and teachers. Manual, support pack, video & DVD, as well as documents detailing Class List, Training Schedules, Child Volunteer Allocation List, Volunteer List, Co-ordinator Visit, Session Register, Incident Record…

http://www.kerbcraft.org/index.htm

Information sheets on Dangerous Substances with notes and activities for Key Stages 1, 2, 3&4 for teachers and suggested discussion points and pupil activities. Also includes a Risk Assessment sheet & a Symbols quiz

Find out more about Dangerous Substances @ http://www.rospa.com/safetyeducation/info/dangerous_substances.pdf

Shorething is divided into three sections

The Young Peoples Section contains

The Teachers and Parents Section contains

The Volunteers section contains

Information on finding out about joining the RNLI team of Education volunteers who communicate with young people about sea and beach safety and the work of the RNLI. With resources for Education volunteers.

Find out more @ the Shorething website http://www.rnli.org.uk/shorething/default.aspx?ld=1

In an emergency situation, Emergency Service and hospital personnel would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as ‘ICE.’

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.

Hopefully the Wikipedia ICE page will keep up-to-date records of ICE as it develops as a concept.

Cathy for anyone that knows Safety Scene has been a very generous person both in terms of her time, ideas and also expertise. She has been very helpful in general, spotting areas of strengths and of weaknesses and helping us to become a better project. Cathy was also one of the first northwest based promoters to spot the potential that Safety Scene had and did so year on year.

We would like to wish Cathy and her team every success for her new venture. Please click on the link to find out more about Cathy and Strategic Partnerships Consultancy

Traffic Lights, Pelican & Zebra Crossings

General Road Safety

Please feel free to suggest additional ideas that can be used as part of classroom warm-up activities.

Video: Online and mobile chat guide
Duration: 9mins
Covering: Using the Internet and mobile phones and how to stay safe

They say

Key Stage 2 Information
The Key Stage 2 teaching pack has been created with the assistance of experts from the National Children’s Charity and the Lucy Faithful Foundation which work in the field of child safety.

The website also includes various downloads:

Link for further information.