West Yorkshire Police Newsletters
Water Safety
Beckie Ramsay, Dylans mum, will be speaking with our Safer Schools Officers in July to share her story and education awareness resources. She has campaigned tireless to achieve getting Water Safety Education into the Draft Statutory RSE Curriculum (P32).
https://vimeo.com/733122640 This video is 8 minutes 35 seconds long.
Please take time to include the video in a staff meeting and prioritise teaching water safety before the end of the summer term. Tell parents to educate all their children on the risks of cold water.
The Water Safety Code and Primary School resources can be downloaded, free, from The Royal Life Saving Society;
eScooter Dangers
Lithium batteries in eScooters are becoming the new trend in causes of fires in London, and this concern is echoed in West Yorkshire (WY). eScooters are NOT legal to use in WY, except on private land, but aside from this, fires caused by faulty batteries, usually when charging, and often months or years after the battery has performed safely, are a huge risk for many families who have these as everyday items in their homes and gardens.
Guidance from West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service can be found here.
The time between these two photos of an eScooter fire is just 10 seconds. The fire was caused by a lithium battery.
THINK! ‘Safe Adventures
The THINK! ‘Safe Adventures’ campaign aims to help parents and guardians prepare their children for independent travel when they move to secondary school.
• ‘EYES UP’ prompts children to put their phone away and look out for their friends and not distract them. Children should stay focused near traffic, look right, left and right again before crossing the road and continue looking and listening while they cross.
• ‘SLOW DOWN’ advises children to take care and don’t run across the road when traffic is coming even if you think there is time. It can be difficult to judge the speed of traffic. If traffic is coming, let it pass.
• ‘CROSS SAFELY’ reminds children to always find a safe place to cross, use a pedestrian crossing if there is one and choose a place where you can see clearly in all directions. Crossing between parked vehicles is hazardous and should be avoided where possible. But when they need to, use the outside edge of the vehicles (as if they were the kerb), stop there and check for traffic looking right, left and right again before entering the road. Check the vehicles are not about to move off, look for drivers in the cars, lights and listen for engines running. When getting off the bus, wait for the bus to leave so you have a clear view and can be seen by other road users.
We encourage parents and guardians to undertake practice journeys, always model best practice and to have a road safety conversation as part of their child’s preparation for changing school.
Find out more www.think.gov.uk/campaign/safe-adventures.