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Child Safe Update, October 2005: New Locations and New Team
Members
October 2005
18 new centres set up in the last 6 months…
 A
busy spring / summer have seen the number of Child Safe Zones
grow to 35 including firsts for Child Safe in Scotland and
Northern Ireland, where The Quays welcomed Newry shoppers
with ‘striking’ car park hoardings.
In early summer, Telford and Shrewsbury brought Child Safe
to Shropshire. Victoria Gibson, Darwin Centre Manager was
delighted, “The scheme has been very well received,
our centre is already a safe place for families to come to,
but anything we can add which will enhance this, has to be
of benefit to parents”. In high summer a successful
‘tour of the realm’ established eight new zones
as the Realm Outlet Centres were set up across the country.
Birmingham set to become the first Child Safe City!
The Birmingham City Centre partnership is to bring together
several shopping centres including the Bullring and the City
Centre itself, to create the first city wide Child Safe Zone.
With Manchester Arndale and Canary Wharf in London also setting
up this autumn, it’s going to be a high profile run
up to Christmas.
The balloon flies abroad…
In January next year the Fairgreen Shopping Centre in Carlow,
Southern Ireland will become the first zone outside of the
UK; and with interest for Child Safe coming in from across
the world the orange balloon can look forward to more trips
abroad in 2006.
 Pat
Morgan joins Child Safe
Child Safe is delighted to welcome Pat Morgan who joins
in a consultancy capacity this autumn. Pat who enjoyed seven
very successful and happy years with Shopping Centre magazine
recently left to run his own business.
GMTV says Good Morning to Child Safe Beaches…
It was an early start for Child Safe in more ways than one,
when GMTV who were featuring the launch of the first RNLI
Child Safe Beach at Weymouth as part of their ‘Child
Safety Week’, decided to bring forward filming at short
notice.
 After
some hasty reorganising and a mad dash to Dorset everything
came together and the Weymouth Child Safe beach scheme was
successfully launched.
 With
support from Walls, Unilever and the surrounding holiday parks,
the scheme aims to help the RNLI lifeguards manage the safety
of one of the busiest beaches in the UK. On a busy summer’s
day lifeguards are involved in over 50 lost child incidents.
In one high profile incident this summer a 4 year old had
wandered 2 miles away, but was happily reunited with mum through
a wristband. Over the next two years the RNLI plan to set
up all their life guard beaches.
Major UK Tour Operator to partner Child Safe
From 2006 all families travelling on holiday with one of
UK’s leading Tour operators will receive
the Child Safe family registration product, Family Safe Plus+,
free, as part of their package cost.
Click here now to register with FamilySafePlus+.
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