Fire Kills - you can prevent it

The best way to teach children about fire safety is by example. Let your children see you being sensible and careful about cooking, candles, smoking and other potential fire risks.

Make Your Home Child Safe

Fires in the home kill dozens of children every year, accounting for nearly half of all accidental child deaths. Children are naturally drawn to the warmth and light of fire, but without the proper guidance this can turn into a dangerous fascination. Children under the age of 10 cause 6,000 fires a year.

Talking to your children about fire

You will want to make sure children are always safe. This includes teaching them how to prevent a fire and what to do if there is one. You will probably need to talk about fire safety more than once, to make sure they have remembered an understood what you have taught them.

Read more about how teaching your children simple rules will help protect them against fire, the instructions you need to give to your children and the measures you can take in your home to make sure your children stay out of harm's way.

Fire safety advice for parents and child carers

Making fire safety fun

Make fire safety fun by visiting our interactive Fire station on Directgov Kids. Here, children will be able to play interactive games, hear stories and watch animations to help them learn more about fire safety in their own home.

Visit the fire station

More resources

If your children liked the Directgov Kids fire station, why not download some more activity sheets to share with them.

• Directgov Kids parents section
• Useful fire safety links
  Fire safety for parents and childcarers (PDF, 364kb)