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Summer Camps and Vacations Are Around The Corner….Do These Things to Keep Your Children Safe!
With the heat and fun of summer time arriving, school is out and children start summer programs at Daycare, School Aged Care and amazing summer day camps. These are so much fun and create such wonderful memories for the kiddos. They get to go on field trips to swimming pools, corn mazes, public parks, possibly the zoo, and a myriad of other great group activities that are off the safe premises of the building they attend.
During the weekday, when I am not writing, I work full time for Children’s Services. My role is to monitor and licence child care programs and conduct investigations when things go wrong while a child is in care at a childcare centre.
Summer can be a nightmare for the team in my office as it becomes a common occurrence for children in care programs to injure themselves or go missing while they attend offsite activities. Annually we have programs calling to report that they had a “missing child” while away at the zoo, or at lakes or pools, and in 99% of the incidents reported, it could have been avoided by effective supervision, teaching the children rules, and by being proactive prior to departing on their adventure, from the program.
As a parent, I cannot stress enough, that the first concern you should have is the…
