Keeping your child safe at home, outdoors, and everywhere in between.
The technology of a modern car seat is sound. The problem isn't the seat — it's the install. When inspection programmes audit seats in everyday use, t...
The technology of modern car seats works. Crashes that would once have been fatal for a child now produce no injury at all. The catch is that this is...
There is no other domain in child safety with such a stark gap between what's known and what's done. The seats are good. The crash data is unambiguous...
This is one of the questions that comes up at every newborn appointment: where can the baby actually sleep? The internet says the cot. The grandparent...
The single most useful question to ask before fitting any cabinet lock is "what's actually inside this cupboard, and what happens if my toddler reache...
A beach day with a small child is not the same activity as a beach day without one. The water is different — surf, currents, drop-offs at the shorelin...
The bathroom is the room where the gap between adult-routine and child-hazard is largest. Adults walk in and out a dozen times a day without thinking...
There is a small disc-shaped battery in your house right now — probably in a key fob, a remote control, a kitchen scale, a hearing aid, a light-up gre...
A typical family bathroom is about 4–6 square metres. In that space you have water deep enough to drown in, taps hot enough to burn through young skin...
The bath is the place where most under-threes drown. Not the swimming pool, not the river — the bath, at home, with a parent in the next room. The rea...
The TV in the corner playing the news while the baby crawls around the rug feels harmless. Nobody is *watching*. The damage it does is precisely becau...
The shift from front to back sleeping is one of the few public-health interventions in modern paediatrics where the data is unambiguous and the cost i...
The baby-proofing aisle is designed to make you feel that everything in your house is trying to kill your child and that only buying more plastic will...
The first instinct when a child grazes a knee is often to reach for the strongest-looking bottle in the cupboard. Most of the time that's the wrong mo...
Public places present multiple safety challenges for young children—wandering off, running toward traffic, accessing hazards, or becoming separated fr...
Unintentional poisoning is one of the most common causes of preventable injury in children under five. Many everyday household substances that are saf...
The safe-sleep guidance most British parents grow up hearing — back to sleep, feet to foot, no loose blankets — exists because each line of it tracks...
Heat-related illness in young children rarely arrives with warning. One minute they're playing, the next they're floppy in your lap with hot pink chee...
Dressing a baby or toddler in hot weather is a small daily problem that comes loaded with anxiety. You don't want them too hot, you don't want them su...
As your child begins eating solid foods, understanding which foods are unsafe is crucial for their safety. Some foods that are harmless for older chil...