Safety Alert: Small Loose Magnets can be Dangerous for Small Children The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) are alerting parents/carers to the dangers posed by small loose magnets. They have advised that a four-year-old boy had died days after swallowing two small magnets. He ate two 1cm-by-1cm pink magnets from his fridge door. Those magnets […]
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Baby Sleep Pillows Safety Alert The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) recently issued a product safety alert concerning baby sleep pillows, please see images above for examples of what these products look like. You can read OPSS’ recommendations in full on the gov.uk website, but in particular they have advised that these pillows should […]
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Join Our Team! We Are Recruiting a new Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership Manager Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) Business Unit is looking for an outstanding individual to provide strategic leadership across the Partnership to enable the statutory leads – Wakefield Council, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and West Yorkshire Police, alongside it’s partners to continue […]
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8 Dangerous Gifts that Could be a Nightmare this Christmas! The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) are advising that cheap gifts from unknown sellers on online marketplaces can come from anywhere in the world and can be dangerous. So, to help you shop safely online this festive season, CAPT have highlighted 8 dangerous gifts that […]
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Bonfire and Firework Top Safety Tips for Families With bonfire night fast approaching please see below our top safety tips for families, to help ensure November the 5th is remembered for all the right reasons! General Advice Firework Safety (The Firework Code) Bonfire Safety First Aid for Burns Useful resources: Click here to access a […]
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Help Families Scare Safely This Halloween Halloween can be an exciting time of year for children, dressing up and going out after dark. But, whilst Halloween is supposed to be spooky there are some horrors that families will want to avoid. The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) have published their top tips to share with […]
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WSCP Publishes Annual Report 2024-25 Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) have published the Annual Report for 2024-25 which summarises, reflects on and presents the work of WSCP from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. This covers the fifth full financial year of operation of WSCP since it replaced the previous Local Safeguarding Children Board […]
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Safety Alert: Baby Sleeping Bags Warning – Risk of Suffocation, Overheating & Death The Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) are advising parents/carers that baby sleeping bags with hoods, or those without arm openings, do not meet UK safety standards and are not permitted to be sold here. They can cause babies to suffocate, overheat or […]
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Hot Weather is Forecast – Water Safety Advice! Water safety is important throughout the year, but more so as the weather gets warmer, and more children are tempted to swim/play in open water sites. Drowning accidents are especially high in the summer months and over the last few years, there has been too many tragedies […]
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