What is it about?
We assessed how effective a trip to 'Warning Zone' was for helping children to learn about risks in their everyday lives. We found that Warning Zone is effective at raising children’s perceptions of risk, and they still understood the risks a month later.
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Why is it important?
Each year in the UK several hundred children die in accidents, and hundreds of thousands of children need hospital treatment for injuries that frequently occur in the home. Warning Zone is an experiential life-skills centre in the UK, which since 2006 has educated thousands of children each year about risk, with a view to preventing injury and potentially harmful behaviours.
Perspectives
As a parent I care about children's safety and want to help make their education about risks effective. We don't want to scare children too much, but they do need to understand the consequences of their choices.
Dr Briony Pulford
University of Leicester
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This page is a summary of: Experiencing risk: the effect of the experiential life-skills centre ‘Warning Zone’ on children’s risk perception, Journal of Risk Research, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2017.1351481.
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