Sharjah campaign to measure parents’ awareness about child safety practices

sharjah — A Sharjah campaign has launched the first phase of two studies to measure parents’ awareness on children’s vehicle safety and cyber security. According to the Child Safety Campaign (CSC), the survey results will offer a “fully integrated database to measure the indicators of children’s safety in vehicles and Internet usage”. It will also identify common safety measures that parents can adopt.

The first survey seeks to measure parents’ awareness about traffic regulations and laws on car seats and seatbelts, and whether parents conform to those laws.

The second survey seeks to measure parents’ awareness about the cyber security of their kids, and their literacy on programmes that are designed to ensure children’s safety when they are using the Internet, especially social media platforms.

The research team working on the studies is anticipated to conduct

The Child Safety Campaign is conducting these two surveys for the very first time.”

Hanadi Saleh Al Yafei, head of the organising committee, CSC

the surveys for an estimated 12,344 families in Sharjah over the course of two weeks.

Hanadi Saleh Al Yafei, head of the organising committee of the CSC, said: “The CSC is conducting these two surveys for the very first time. Parents have already shown great interest and responded positively to them through cooperating with our team.

“These surveys are important because they provide a valuable source of information, identifying wrong practices and establishing a database that can be reviewed and updated. They can then be used as special reference to many state departments and child care institutions in Sharjah and the UAE,” she added.

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