Programs

• Pre and Primary School Road Safety Program
  This Program focuses on providing parents and families with information to help make their children safer and to support safety-related curriculum activities at schools. The Program includes distribution of a number of brochures on car restraint standards and usage (including the implementation of new National road Rules and standards expected to be brought in over 2008/09), free restraints checks at schools, distribution of related Fact sheets and newsletter articles and extension of Kidsafe Community Talks program into school parent communities. Drawing competitions for Pre School and Primary School students that will support the information going to families.
• Primary School Water Safety Pilot Program – Joint program with Royal Life Saving Society
  This joint Kidsafe/RLSS Program has developed new approaches to improving the number of children leaving Primary School who can save themselves and others in and around the water.
  
  The Program focuses on safety and survival skills in and near water and in ensuring that all children in the ACT and surrounding areas can save themselves in and around water by the age of 12.
• Redevelopment of Kidsafe Web-site
  The current web-site has quite limited capacity to support parents need for safety – related information. This redesigned site will provide much greater access and clarity for families.
• Mobile Restraint Service Extension to Dickson, Queanbeyan, Gungahlin and Tuggeranong
  Kidsafe ACT’s Mobile Restraint Service has been in place since March 2007. This service is here to provide people in Canberra and the surrounding areas with access to restraint hires, fittings and checks as well as restraint and safety product purchases and information for parents, carers, families and friends. The Mobile Restraint Service first started in Dickson, and with the success of this service Kidsafe ACT then started a Mobile Restraint Service in Queanbeyan.Kidsafe plans to extend this service to Gungahlin/Ngunnawal and Tuggeranong in 2008 and onwards, subject to funding
• Redevelopment of Kidsafe shop front
  Kidsafe’s shop front at Pearce provides support for most new parents, carers, grandparents, families and friends. The planned improvements will create better space for customers, improved display of safety products and solutions, and a capacity to provide much more information to families about both Kidsafe’s core messages and on behalf of many other community organisations and agencies on related issues.
• Development of further Prime TV community service advertisements
  Prime TV provides a great community sponsorship for Kidsafe and supports our work in a variety of ways. Prime is currently developing a new series of advertisements on important safety priorities.
• Family Day Care and Child Care Guideline redevelopment
  Kidsafe Act is participating in a national Kidsafe program through which we are working with State and Territory regulators and providers to develop a nationally consistent set of guidelines for the safe operation of Family Day Care providers in-home and Child Care Centres. These guidelines will then be implemented in each State and Territory within the individual regulatory framework in place locally.
• Publication of new or revised safety material
  As part of these inter-connected programs a number of revised brochures are being developed and published this year. They include
  • What’s Your Poison, Where’s Your Poison
  • Carrying Children Safely in your Car
  • A Parents Guide to Kidsafe Homes
  • Bicycle Safety brochure
  • Fire safety bulletins and fire escape plan for children in conjunction with ACT Fire Brigade
  • Growth chart that promotes the proper use of car restraints