This week, running from 21 \u2013 27 June, is Child Safety Week. The campaign comes from the Child Accident Prevention Trust who are aiming to raise awareness of the number of accidents that seriously injure or kill children and how parents can take measures to avoid them happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tuesday \u2013 fire<\/strong> If a fire starts when you\u2019re asleep and you don\u2019t have a working smoke alarm there\u2019s a big chance the poisonous smoke will quickly make you unconscious and you\u2019ll never wake up!<\/p>\n Make sure you have a working smoke alarm on every level of your home and double your chances of getting your family out alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n Take a few minutes every week to check your alarms are working. And pledge some time this week to fitting your smoke alarms, if they\u2019re still sitting in their boxes!<\/p>\n Join parents throughout the country and pledge your time with the Child Safety Week Time Pledge and find out how to protect your child from serious accidents.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.childsafetyweek.org.uk\/child-safety-week\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, running from 21 \u2013 27 June, is Child Safety Week. The campaign comes from the Child Accident Prevention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nDuring Child Safety Week 2 toddlers will be admitted to hospital because they\u2019ve inhaled smoke from a fire in the home.\u00a0 The thick black smoke from a fire can fill your home in minutes and kill your child in seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n