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Dont have any kids my self but see them all the time in childrens centres i vist will do my best to point them to the web site.
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Very strange to come across this thread, my wife has twins on the way and socket covers WERE on my list of must haves, not anymore, I have installed these things loads of times, on banks and shops etc, and like someone else mentioned i've seen them in plenty of nusery's and creches.
one thing I will say though, to the common man(myself included until 20 mins ago) a socket is a socket, and telling them about internal shutters on socket outlets will be wasting oxygen. would it not be better for the fatally flawed people to come up with another design for socket safety?
a simple letterbox system fixed with the socket screws springs to mind(50/50 dragons den??) as infairness if you stuck a nail in the earth terminal and opened the shutters, whats to stop you using your other hand and sticking another nail in the live terminal.
That would take a very deliberate and coordinated effort
However this is idiocy, i certainly didnt play with sockets when i was a child and back then there wasnt internal shutters,
The shutters have been incorporated since 1927!
But on a serious note, without legislation, if schools etc remove these covers and a child does somehow manage to get something inside them, then, with todays 'blame culture' somebody is going to go to court. So hopefully the Government will take this on board and do something about them.
dear, Which website you are talking about. please mention the site.We have the owner of that website as a member on here somewhere you know. Didn't know he was a TV presenter!
unless she turns out to be another sharon shoesmith....then she wont be fit for owt....probably wont be very fit either....I know the head of childrens social services in Bradford. I will be enlightening them so they can pass the word to every social worker in that area will then reach social workers across west yorkshire. hopefully depending upon their skills of passing information down the chain every house or childrens home may soon be without these things.
Are lass is a qualified nursery nurse and even she didnt know they were crap, they still use them in the nusery were she works ( untill Monday) and ofsted have never said owt on there inspections. Eyes wide open on this one mate, cheers. Child safety is of the upmost importance!!!
I agree that education is the best thing with kids however looking at some of the parents walking round in the places I've lived they also need to be supervised. Yesterday was a Polish bird in Tescos letting her toddler play with a carrier bag.
we come across these quite a bit on PIRs n stuff....now obviously i cant just throw these away wherever i come across them as they arn`t my property to do so....but i will inform the person/s ordering the test that these are dangerous....i mean why the hell anyone want to introduce potentials into the home...thats what these things are doing by holding shutters open...etc...
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