Safe At Home - the National Home Safety Equipment Scheme
On Friday 20 February 2009 Baroness Delyth Morgan launched 'Safe At Home' an £18m National Home Safety Equipment Scheme which will be run by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) until March 2011.
With children from disadvantaged families statistically far more likely to have an accident, the main focus of Safe At Home is to provide home safety equipment to the most disadvantaged families in the 141 areas with the highest accident rates.
The scheme will be delivered locally through schemes run by partners such as Sure Start Children's Centres, local authorities, Primary Care Trusts and charities.
RoSPA is organising information workshops throughout England to inform interested organisations how they can become involved with the scheme. Details about the information workshops, how the national scheme will operate and who is eligible, can be found at RoSPA's website.