A toddler has died in her cot after after becoming entwined with the looped cord hanging from the blinds on her nursery window. Little Leah Edwards was in her cot with her twin brother when she became ...
The campaign aims to raise awareness of these potential hidden dangers, which include Venetian and Roman blinds where the cords are internal but can be pulled tight to form a loop. The Astleys are ...
New blinds with looped cords will have a child-safety device fitted (a tidy, tensioner or cleat). This should be fitted to an ...
Cordless blinds will have to be pulled to close, corded blinds will require pulling on a cord to release the locking mechanism, and single-loop blinds employ a continuous pulling motion to close the ...
There have been 14 deaths in the UK caused by looped blind cords since 2010 and Tom Mullarkey, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, is here to explain why ...