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Scotland’s Home Safety Equipment Scheme- Child Safety- A sharing
- 1. Scotland’s Home Safety Equipment Scheme Christie Burnett Project Officer RoSPA cburnett@rospa.com 0131 449 9379
- 2. It will never happen to me...
- 3. Scotland’s Home Safety Equipment Scheme: The Pilot SHSES has reached 900 vulnerable families 1752 vulnerable children AND Trained 165 practitioners and installers The cost of delivering the scheme was £276 for each family; £142 for each child. The most recent available data on the cost of a non-fatal, hospital treated home accident for children up to 4 years is £10,600
- 4. The Evaluation The pilot 99 % of families considered that their homes felt safer: • “I feel safer knowing the equipment has been professionally installed”. • “Its good that others are thinking of our child’s safety”. • “The fireman told me about closing doors- I never knew about that before: Id have all the doors open otherwise”. 85% Stakeholders who participated in the scheme believed the scheme had enhanced awareness of home safety and how to practice home safety (for the families): • “Some families were surprised (to learn) about home safety (issues); and some it reminded them how important it is. They were interested”. • They definitely knew more about home safety after we’d gone in- and they shared it with other families”.
- 5. A Debate in the Scottish Parliament Clare Adamson, MSP • Clare Adamson, MSP launched a motion in parliament about home safety kits • The debate received comments from Dr Richard Simpson (fife), David Torrance (SNP), Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland), and The Minister For Children and Young People; Aileen Campbell • “The parliament notes the evidence relating to home safety equipment schemes and considers that there is a need for local schemes to be administered; notes that young children and more likely to be involved in accidents in their own homes in Central Scotland and across the country but that often the correct safety equipment, with supporting education, can prevent unnecessary suffering...” • http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/scotland-30039975
- 6. The Scottish Borders Phase 2 • SHSES has started in the Scottish Borders • We have reached families through the 4 housing associations within the borders • Reaching 100 vulnerable families • Training 5 members of staff • Using the pilot project to make a test for change
- 7. The Next steps • On the 9th of February an evaluation launch took place in Glasgow, welcoming old and new faces of the scheme to discuss the next steps for SHSES. • Clare Adamson, MSP welcomed everyone to the conference • Action plans were created by delegates to form the Next Steps in which we as a nation hope to take forward. • The action plans developed ideas of how we can continue SHSES with and without funding • Creating a Test for Change could allow us to implement the scheme in a cost effective way.
- 8. Goodbye from SHSES • SHSES has provided 1000 families with an individual home safety risk assessment, a home safety awareness raising package, equipment and a professional fitting of the equipment and a home fire risk assessment. • 170 staff members have now been trained through SHSES But what happens now..?
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- Good Morning, My name is Christie Burnett and I work for RoSPA Scotland. Today i am going to be talking to you about Scotland’s Home Safety Equipment Scheme.
- It will never happen to me... When I was 9months old I fell down the stairs after leaning on a poorly fitted safety gate (It’s my dads fault I'm not prime minister). Thankfully I cannot remember any of this- in fact I cannot remember the first few years of my life. The harsh reality of everyone believing ‘it will never happen to me..’ is that until something like this does actually happen we will forever believe this ideal. Accidents in the home are easily preventable and through a scheme such as SHSES we are providing Scotland’s vulnerable families with free safety advice, equipment and a professional fitting. A scheme designed in the best interests of the children. SHSES worked with the Early Years Collaborative in the Scottish Government to design the scheme with the children's best interests at heart.
- Scotland’s Home Safety Equipment Scheme provides families with a free home Safety prescription. This includes home safety awareness raising; an equipment package; and a home fire safety risk assessment. SHSES piloted in 13 local authorities between June 2013 and April 2014, reaching 900 families and 1752 vulnerable children. Every family involved with the scheme received the full prescription offered through SHSES. The scheme also trained 165 members of staff in home safety. Staff were trained by RoSPA in children's safety in the home and by Kid Rapt on the installation of safety equipment. The cost of delivering the scheme was £276 per family or £142 for every child reached. The most recent available data on the cost of a non-fatal , hospital treated home accident for children up to 4 years is £10,600.
- The evaluation of the pilot scheme generated a lot of praise for all involved in the scheme. 99% of families considered their homes felt safer and they had received the package.
- After the results of the pilot project Clare Adamson, MSP launched a motion in parliament about the need for home safety kits.
- SHSES has launched in the Scottish Borders. Due to time scales we are only able to reach out to 100 families, however we are using the pilot evaluation to create a ‘perfect’ shses. The use of housing associations has allowed us to speed up the referral process and help us keep track of where every individual person has come from. Housing Associations also allow us to target vulnerable families. SHSES phase 2 is Making use of suggestions made from previous practitioners and installers of the scheme and looking at what didn't work and why. One of the main points we picked up on was to do a joint training session for installers and practitioners- we have received great feedback from the 5 practitioners and installers from the Scottish Borders from our training session last Monday. The practitioners believed it was beneficial to hear the installer training and felt more confident in filling out ‘form 2’ Another change we have made is making use of Google Drive- this is to upload and download paper work. Google Drive works as an online storage system. This system allows us to access forms instantly. Each housing association will upload their completed forms onto Google Drive where i can then retrieve them. This also cuts down times between form 2 being sent to the installer. They can simply logon to Google Drive and download the completed form as soon as the practitioner has uploaded it. Google Drive has been introduced to cut down the volume of missing forms and also acts as a communication tool- everyone who is part of SHSES can see the forms being uploaded so knows who has done the job and when. We have also introduced a Fire Risk Rating Form. This will be filled out by the practitioners when they do the ‘walk through’ visit. This form acts as a risk rater for the Fire Service. During the pilot o SHSES we were referring hundreds of families for a home fire safety visit however the majority of these families were going into the system as high risk because we had simply only supplied their names and addresses. The risk rating form allows the fire service to rate the families homes in terms of need therefore decreasing the high demand they have on them to visit high risk families within a specific time period. Having trained 5 more members of staff we have now trained 170 members of staff across Scotland thus providing us a base of home safety aware leaders in SHSES.
- Maintaining a legacy for SHSES – Inverclyde and now the Western Isles have been continuing to deliver parts of SHSES to vulnerable families. This is the start to our legacy- we believe the education package provided by SHSES was most crucial to many families and it is an excellent thought to know this is continuing to reach those who most need it. In accordance with the evaluation – supporting families involved with SHSES. RoSPA seeks to create Home Safety Champions, by training parents/carers who were originally involved with SHSES in Home Safety. We would like to become a home safety aware nation and by using SHSES we can create a ‘development education’ programme, such as workshops for vulnerable families lead by those who have been there before to help pass on the education they gained through SHSES to those who we did not reach. It is hoped we can make use of a ‘train the trainer’ programme where our previous practitioners help train parents/carers to become Home safety aware champions. This allows us to act upon the relationships created during the home Safety visits and promotes the trust that was built between parents and practitioners. One of the main points which came from the evaluation was practitioners felt they could gain access to families home much easier because they were from ‘RoSPA’ and part of SHSES if we can use this bond to provide further help and education we can develop a scheme that everyone can trust. The parents/carers will be provided with certificates after completing their training essentially making them certified RoSPA Home Safety practitioners. These parents/carers will then have the opportunity to become RoSPA volunteers and begin their home safety journey speaking quarterly to new mum groups in their areas. A Test for change allows us to provide further opportunities to those most vulnerable and continue to support those children under five who we met through the scheme.
- Every chief executive and community planning officer across Scotland has been sent a letter by RoSPA to ask to support us in our journey of SHSES. In return for their support we have offered them : Read from slide. By providing the above to every local authority we are continuing to spread the word of SHSES and promoting it within every single local authority- reaching out to the thousands. If we are to receive funding we will look at action plans like the ones you have created today to build upon SHSES and hopefully begin to provide everyone with the full SHSES package.