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Crucial
Crew
child safety events have been running for several years in Shropshire,
and are aimed at Year 6 children (aged 10-11), an age where they are
becoming more independent and need to know how to behave in an emergency
or risk situation. The Crucial Crew events in Shropshire are run by management committee partnerships involving local and national businesses, departments of the County and District Councils, as well as the Police and Fire Authorities, the NFU, Railtrack and others. These partners, together with other agencies, provide staff and resources for one or more interactive scenarios during a week or fortnight's event, attended by local children - the actual CRUCIAL CREW! After a day at Crucial
Crew, children should be:
This year the scenario took the theme of 'Illegal Shopping' with a village shop counter for children to visit and pick out eleven goods which cannot legally be sold to young people.
After an opportunity to select their 'shopping', the children and the Trading Standards presenters discussed the hazards associated with each item and the children offered their opinions about why there needs to be an age limit on sale of potentially dangerous goods. To take the test yourself and see how well you would have scored. For Further information contact us
Updated October 2007 Shropshire County
Council Trading Standards Service
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The Trading Standards
Service has once again taken part in two Crucial Crew events, held at
Nesscliffe for Shrewsbury and Oswestry children, and at Cleobury North
for schools in the South Shropshire and Bridgnorth areas. 
Obvious items such
as cigarettes, alcohol and lottery tickets were quickly snapped up but
children needed to look and think much harder about items like party
poppers, cigarette papers, airgun pellets, and toilet cleaner! 