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Book a free Kidsafe WA safety talk for your parent group

Kidsafe WA will come to your mothers' group, playgroup or workplace and run a free one-hour talk on keeping children under five safe at home, at play and in the car. What it covers, who can book, regional visits, and the free webinars you can join from home.

A Kidsafe presenter holds up a cupboard lock for a small circle of parents with babies and toddlers in a bright community room

Most of us pick up child safety in bits: a tip from a friend, a post on a forum, a warning on a box. It's hard to know what you've missed. An hour with a child injury prevention team, answering the questions your group actually has, fills a lot of gaps at once.

Kidsafe WA offers exactly that. Its Keeping Kids Safe workshop is a free, hour-long talk for groups of parents and carers of children aged 0 to 5, and they'll come to you.

Book a Keeping Kids Safe workshop

What it is

Kidsafe WA is the Western Australian branch of Kidsafe, the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia. Its team runs talks, demonstrations and webinars across the state on how young children get hurt and how to stop it.

The Keeping Kids Safe workshop is a practical, interactive presentation that runs for about 60 minutes. It covers safety at home, during play and on the road, with plain steps to lower the risk of:

It also covers some basic first aid, and tips for looking after your own mental health during pregnancy and after the birth. Kidsafe WA can shape the session around what your group wants to know, so if half your group has a new crawler and the other half is about to switch car seats, say so when you book.

Who can book it

The workshop is for a group, not one family. That suits:

If you're one parent who'd like to go, ask your playgroup or mothers' group coordinator to book it. It's an easy yes for them: someone else brings the content, and it costs nothing.

What it costs

The workshop is free. Kidsafe WA's funding covers only a certain number of presentations. When that runs out, presentations cost $350 plus GST, so it pays to book early.

Where it happens

You choose. Kidsafe WA will present at your venue, or you can bring your group to its main office at 140 Railway Parade, West Leederville. If you go to West Leederville, the Safety Demonstration House is in the same building, and you can walk through a home fitted out with the safety gear the talk describes.

How to book, step by step

  1. Agree a few possible dates with your group and get a rough head count.
  2. Open the Keeping Kids Safe booking page on Kidsafe WA's website.
  3. Fill in the form: your group's name, a contact name, address, phone and email, the number of people coming and a preferred date.
  4. Choose the venue: your address or the Kidsafe WA office.
  5. Say what presentation gear the venue has, such as a TV or projector screen, and add anything you'd like covered.
  6. Submit the form.

Questions first? Call Kidsafe WA on (08) 6244 4880 or email kidsafe@kidsafewa.com.au.

In country WA

Kidsafe WA visits regional WA every year, with support from the Department of Health WA and Horizon Power. In 2026 the Goldfields visit is listed for 2 to 5 November, and the Pilbara for October (to be confirmed). Groups in the Wheatbelt, South West and Great Southern can ask for a visit any time through the expression of interest form on the Regional Visits page. The Keeping Kids Safe workshop is on its list of free services.

Can't get a group together? Join a webinar

Kidsafe WA runs free webinars on Microsoft Teams that anyone can join from home. The next one listed, on 28 October 2026, is It's the Thought That Counts: Toy safety and gift giving, on 13 November 2026 from 10am to 11am Perth time. It covers age labels, safety standards and the hazards to look for before you buy presents, and grandparents are welcome.

Recordings of earlier webinars sit on the same page, including burns and scalds with Perth Children's Hospital, a parent's guide to baby's first year, and choosing and using car seats.

Book a Keeping Kids Safe workshop

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