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Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
New guidance drawn up at the request of the Department of Health urges councils and other public sector bodies to “collect data” on properties where children are thought to be at “greatest risk of unintentional injury”.
Council staff will then be tasked with overseeing the installation of safety devices in homes, including smoke alarms, stair gates, hot water temperature restrictors, oven guards and window and door locks.
The draft guidance by a committee at the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) has been criticised as intrusive and further evidence of the “creeping nanny state”.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6917328.ece
The council will probably be run off their feet having to bring everything up to safety standards.
private homes? that's not the councils responsibiity is it?
what will the parents be fined for if anything do you think? and I wonder if you have to keep quiet and only speak when you're spoken to when they come knocking?