Staying safe
Cornwall's Local Safeguarding Children Board is the statutory body responsible for protecting children and young people from significant harm and for promoting their welfare.
Flashpoint Lifeskills Centre, Bodmin. Ideal for a day's field trip, the Flashpoint Lifeskills Centre provides courses dedicated to accident and injury prevention, the reduction of crime and disorder, and the dissemination of health and safety messages including drugs awareness, flood awareness, home safety, beach safety and farm safety. Email the Flashpoint Lifeskills Centre or telephone 01208 72087.
CAPT The Child Accident Prevention Trust is a national charity in the United Kingdom committed to reducing the number of children and young people killed, disabled and seriously injured as a result of accidents.
RoSPA The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has lots of facts, figures and background information on its website which is also a good source of information about school health and safety policies, risk assessment, minibus safety and school trips. RoSPA has produced Road safety education: a guide for healthy schools; it uses some of the criteria from the national Healthy Schools online audit.
Young Lifesaver This link is to information about the St. John Ambulance Young Lifesaver programme which teaches essential life-saving and first aid skills in schools.
Heartstart UK Information about the British Heart Foundation's national Heartstart project which teaches emergency life-support skills. To find out more about the Heartstart schools project in Cornwall, contact healthy schools or telephone 01209 310061 and ask to speak to the Heartstart Co-ordinator.
The Red Cross have an excellent interactive website featuring some excellent safety education games as part of the Life-Live-It campaign.
The Safe at Home in Cornwall service monitors unintentional injuries in the county. Accidents are second only to cancer as a leading cause of death for children and young people in England. Beth Beynon is the contact for this service.
Healthy Kids is a terrific health education site aimed at children and designed by the Lambeth Primary Schools Primary Links Project.
Direct Gov Kids This government website has lots of interactive sections for children and excellent material for teachers and parents. Designed to teach children about people and places in their local communities, the site features a series of buildings which children can explore, including a school, fire station, town hall, police station, supermarket and a wind farm. Games and activities introduce ideas such as citizenship, democracy and political participation. For teachers, there are lesson plans, activities and worksheets covering the primary curricululm with an emphasis on PSHE and Citizenship.
My Life 4 Schools is a Key Stage 2 PSHE and Citizenship teaching resource produced by the Children's Society. On the website child-friendly stories, animations and online activities bring to life key topics and themes from the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
The General Medical Council has published guidance setting out doctors’ roles and responsibilities towards children and young people. All doctors have a duty to safeguard and protect the health and wellbeing of children and young people. Read 0-18 years: guidance for all doctors. A poster (designed by 13-15 year-olds) informing young people of their rights when visiting a doctor was launched in January 2009 as part of the process of implementing the guidance, download the poster.
Dreadnought's Hot Spot Project
The Dreadnought Hot Spot Project is a fantastic FREE service in Cornwall that works with 10-17 year-olds who have an unhealthy interest in fire. This could range from hoax or malicious 999 calls through to life-threatening arson. A retained or retired fire-fighter visits the young person's home for offence analysis, fire-safety awareness and victim empathy. For these young people, the opportunity to speak with a fire-fighter who can pass on at first hand experiences concerning the destructive nature of fire has been extremely successful. Contact Ali MacAllan for more information or telephone her on 01209 218764.
Letting children be children
This is the report of an independent review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood, read Letting children be children.
Hygiene and the prevention of infection
The e-Bug website, endorsed by the Health Protection Agency, has a series of educational materials and games on topics associated with microbes and the spread, treatment and prevention of infection. Many of these activities can be used to educate children about winter bugs and flu, particularly the respiratory and hand hygiene sections. There is a fun resource handwashing and UV light Box containing Ultra Violet Florescent Lantern and Glitter Bug potion for disclosing areas of hands that have not been correctly washed available to borrow from the Health Promotion library. Contact them for details on how to borrow this kit.
