Scheme aims to prevent children getting lost in shopping centres

SHOPPING centres are availing of a safety scheme aimed at preventing the trauma caused by parents becoming separated from their children.

Child Safe Zones were launched in Britain in 2003 and, in recent months, have spread to centres throughout Ireland, including Navan, Galway, Cork and Dublin.

The programme includes the distribution of paper wristbands which can be used to store parents’ contact numbers and worn by their children in the shopping centre.