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| Children and staff from Somerville Day Nursery learn how to stay safe while out shopping |
A SHOPPING centre has launched a scheme to help parents find their children if they become separated while shopping.
The Child Safe Zone scheme at Greenwich Shopping Park offers parents a hotline number displayed on bright posters throughout the centre in Bugsby Way.
They can call the number if their child goes missing while they are shopping, and a security team then uses CCTV to reunite them.
Children are also provided with free wristbands with their parents' mobile numbers on them.
Youngsters and nursery workers from Somerville Day Nursery, Sparta Street, Blackheath Hill,
attended the launch of the scheme.
They were also given a talk by a PCSO about how to stay safe while shopping.
A Greenwich Shopping Park spokesman said: "Everyone at the centre understands the importance of reuniting a lost child with their parents as quickly as possible.
"We have implemented this scheme to give our shoppers increased peace of mind."
9:46am Friday 4th July 2008
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CommentPosted by: Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott, Bexley Village on 10:58am Fri 4 Jul 08
If parents are doing their jobs properly, they will not become separated from their offspring.
Unfortunately, a lot of parents, particuarly in [bold]Dartford[/bold], are too interested in staring through low-class jewellers' windows for their next piece of tasteless bling to worry about their children's behaviour or whereabouts.
[bold]Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott[/bold]
If parents are doing their jobs properly, they will not become separated from their offspring.
Unfortunately, a lot of parents, particuarly in
Dartford, are too interested in staring through low-class jewellers' windows for their next piece of tasteless bling to worry about their children's behaviour or whereabouts.
Your Lord, Erastus Theobald Piggott
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