Child Restraint Information Sessions
Kidsafe Victoria’s child restraint legislation information sessions provide community organisations and parents groups with knowledge of the requirements of Victoria’s road rules to enable them to transport children legally and safely. Sessions run for 1 hour and include information about: Victoria’s child restraint road rules Selection of appropriate child restraints For more information or to […]
Pedestrian Safety
Walking is not only good for children’s health and fitness, it’s also a great way for them to get around their neighbourhood independently. However, being a pedestrian does involve a number of hazards, especially for young children. Roads are designed with adults in mind, however children are not ‘little adults’. Child pedestrians are at an […]
Children Left Unattended In Cars
Leaving children unattended in a car, even for a short period of time, can be fatal. Children are particularly at risk because they can lose fluid quickly, become dehydrated and suffer from heatstroke. Every year in Australia, over 5,000 children are rescued after being left unattended in a car. Between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018, Ambulance Victoria responded […]
Driveway Safety
On average, every year 7 children aged 0-14 years are killed and 60 are seriously injured due to driveway run over incidents in Australia. Most driveway run overs occur in the driveway of the child’s own home, or in a friend or relative’s driveway. The driver is usually a parent, relative or family friend. In […]
Child Restraints
Motor vehicle crashes are one of the most common transport related injuries for children. On average, 7 children under the age of 13 are killed and 601 are injured as passengers in vehicles on Victorian roads every year. Correctly fitted and used child restraints and booster seats play an important part in protecting children from […]
Donate to Kidsafe
Your financial support can help us to ‘make a safer world for kids’. {loadposition donate_one} {loadposition donate_reg} Kidsafe is an independent, non-government not for profit organisation. Community donations enable us to continue developing innovative child safety and injury prevention campaigns, specific resources for parents, grandparents, carers, childcare centres and schools, in addition to researching and […]
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Partners & Alliances
Partners St John Kidsafe Victoria has collaborated with St John Victoria to include injury prevention content in their KIDS FIRST Course. This course is tailored towards parents, carers, grandparents and anyone else who has any contact with children aged 0-14 years. Not only does it cover the necessary First Aid treatments, but also integrates key […]
Kidsafe Current Supporters
Kidsafe Victoria is grateful for the support of a range of organsations that share a commitment and interest in the prevention of childhood injuries. Below is a list of our supporters that are contributing funds or in kind products or services to our current operations, projects, initiatives or campaigns relating to the prevention of childhood […]
Child Injury
Over 150 Australian children die and a further 68,000 are hospitalised every year due to unintentional injuries – the kind often referred to as ‘accidents’. More Australian children die of injury than die of cancer and asthma combined. Every year in Victoria approximately 20 children die and over 100,000 are treated in hospital (hospital […]
