Advice keeps frightened children safe

By Catherine Gaunt, Nursery World, 8 May 2008

Children who get lost or feel unsafe could find a helping hand from a training scheme launched this week.

The 'Safer Strangers, Safer Buildings' campaign gives children common-sense guidance to help them identify safe adults to approach and the kinds of buildings to go into to ask for help. It will help them pick out responsible adults such as police and community support officers, bank counter staff and shopkeepers and safer buildings like banks, libraries, post offices and shops. The scheme is based on Home Office guidance and has been piloted in the north-west. Liam McGurrin of the Children's Safety Education Foundation said, 'Many children are...

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