LASER Project 1999 - 2002 'Good Practice Guidelines'
Background
LASER type schemes became noticed in 1986 when the first 'Crucial Crew' scheme ran in London. The Project identified around 200 schemes. Some schemes had permanent, purpose built sites, others were temporary lasting for two to four weeks and operating in a variety of locations.
Developing 'Good Practice Guidelines' for teaching children about safety
The LASER Project was funded by the Department of Health (DoH) and managed by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Its aims were to identify schemes, observe practice and establish guidelines in governance, content and self-evaluation for the use by LASER type schemes working with KS2 children in England.
Details of the findings and the published guidelines can be read using the links below.
The Project's Steering Group made recommendations to take this work forward and seek further funding to develop Quality Standards and an Accreditation process.
LASER Accreditation Programme 2005+
RoSPA applied to the DoH and was successful in gaining a further three years of funding to carry out this work. This was announced in the White Paper 'Choosing Health' in November 2004 which stated that 'RoSPA were commissioned to establish an Accreditation Scheme for Safety Centres across England to sustain best practice and new ways of delivering accident prevention messages'. This site has been designed and published to facilitate these aims.
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