North Somerset Childhood Safety Equipment Fitting Scheme

Many unintentional childhood Injuries occur in the home, where there are risks from falls, poisoning, burns and strangulation. 

To minimise the possibility of childhood injuries in the home, North Somerset Council fund a Childhood Safety Equipment Fitting Scheme. It enables Health Visitors and staff from Best Start Family Hubs to refer families with a higher risk of a childhood injury occurring in the home, to an organisation who can fit safety equipment.  The equipment fitted includes stair gates, fire guards, cupboard/drawer locks, window restrictors and blind cord cleats. 

If you would like a referral form, please contact the healthy early years team on: healthy.ey@n-somerset.gov.uk

The safety equipment fitting scheme is administered by AMS Electrical who will visit the family to fit safety equipment.

What AMS Electrical will do:

1. The AMS Electrical administrator will make an appointment with the family to fit equipment at a mutually convenient time.

2. It is important that the forms are completed in full, as AMS Electrical will follow up with the referrer, if contact can’t be made with the family after 3 attempts. The referrer will be asked to re-contact the family to see if they would still like to receive the service and if they do, the referrer will need to resend the referral.

3. Once the safety equipment has been fitted, the fitters will record information about equipment fitted and reasons why any couldn’t be fitted, onto an electronic spreadsheet.

4. Each quarter, AMS Electrical will return a spreadsheet to North Somerset Council, detailing the number of visits and the quantity of equipment fitted.

5. AMS Electrical will not share any information about names and addresses with anyone other than North Somerset Council (if requested).