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Cubs Home Safety Activity Badge

Cubs Home Safety Activity Badge

Home Safety badge

Everyone should feel safe and snug in their own space. Learn how to prevent accidents in the home, and find out what to do if they happen.

How to earn your badge:

  1. Find out what to do about a burst water pipe, gas leak or electricity power failure in your home.
  2. Identify the common causes of accidents in the home.

    How they can be prevented?

  3. Find out how to protect your home from crime.
  4. Find out where the nearest public telephone box is to your house.

    Where else could you make an emergency call if the public telephone wasn’t working?

  5. Make a list of useful emergency numbers.

October 2024.

Requirements can be adapted to suit each young persons abilities. See our guidance on flexibility.

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