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Travel Safety Checklist

A checklist for families travelling with children. Covers documentation, location tracking, emergency plans, and staying safe in unfamiliar places.

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A two-page travel safety checklist covering preparation and on-the-day essentials. Includes: ensuring passports and travel documents are current, photographing your child in their travel-day outfit, agreeing a meeting point in case of separation, setting up location sharing on devices, packing a card with your contact details for younger children, reviewing hotel safety, and discussing stranger awareness in unfamiliar settings. Covers both UK and overseas travel.

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This is practical educational content to support families. For case-specific concerns about a child's safety, contact the NSPCC helpline on 0808 800 5000 or your local safeguarding team.

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