Safe At Home - The National Home Safety Equipment Scheme

PLEASE NOTE: Safe At Home was a two year programme that closed on 31 March 2011. All schemes are closed for referrals for safety equipment, however, they may still be able to provide you with safety information and advice.

Please take a look at the website which contains lots of useful information on how to keep your children safe and prevent accidents in the home.

Evaluation of the National Safe At Home Scheme

This is the official evaluation report for Safe At Home, the first national home safety equipment scheme.

Safe At Home - Final Evaluation Report (PDF 3.2Mb)

Safe At Home, which was hosted by RoSPA from 2009-2011, aimed to help families tackle one of the country’s most severe accident problems - home accidents to under-fives, which account for an estimated 500,000 A&E visits across the UK each year.

The scheme installed free home safety equipment - including safety gates, fireguards and cupboard locks - in the homes of 66,127 disadvantaged families in areas with the highest child accident rates in England. It also saw 4,300 local delivery providers trained and supplied with educational resources to help them talk to families about home safety, and more than 300,000 families with children under five received home safety advice and information during the two-year project.

The evaluation was conducted by a team from the University of Nottingham using a range of methods including postal surveys, one-to-one interviews, discussion groups, direct observation, case studies, documentary analysis and postcode mapping of family data.