{"id":2300,"date":"2012-10-30T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:19","slug":"community-safety-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/community-safety-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Safety Month at the RCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2301\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/10\/30\/community-safety-month\/111dsc02674\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2301\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/10\/111DSC02674-193x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thingle Toodle and Professor Eric (a) Speriment visit RCH patient James Dulson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ThingleToodle and Professor Eric (a) Speriment visited patients and families today at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) as part of Community Safety Month in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>ThingleToodle and the Professor visited RCH patients on the ward before performing for patients and RCH cr\u00e8che children in the Starlight Room.<\/p>\n<p>Funded by VicRoads, Starting Out Safely ThingleToodle education sessions are about children, parents, carers and early childhood educators working together to guide children&#8217;s learning,\u00a0helping them to become\u00a0safe and independent road users.<\/p>\n<p>RCH Safety Centre Senior Project Coordinator, Barbara Minuzzo, said the education session was a great way to deliver vital road safety messages to children and parents in a creative and memorable way. &#8220;Road safety education helps prepare children and young people to become safer road and transport users, and it&#8217;s great to see the children learn in a supportive and fun environment&#8221;, said Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>Community Safety Month is a state wide initiative, providing Victorians with a chance to take part in activities and events and learn how to make local communities safer places to live and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThingleToodle and Professor Eric (a) Speriment visited patients and families at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital today in support of Community Safety Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}