As the legal occupier of a property

Occupied as the laws of property, whether house, flat or other dwelling, you have a duty of care to any person access to your home. If the child has access to your property, but rarely, you should take special care to ensure that your family for their safety, and take any necessary precautionary measures to prevent accidents. Failure to do so may leave you open to potential claims of legal action, the child should be in your home, suffered injuries in the accident or worse.

The duties of your children in your home: -

Occupied under the Occupiers Liability (Scotland) Act 1960, is responsible for the safety of any individual to enter their premises (including indoor and outdoor). The act was placed in your care for the common responsibility to take any reasonable precautions to ensure that visitors to your home is safe. In the case of rental housing, who is responsible for the legal occupied may vary according to the contract, shared responsibility, can be held between the tenant and landlord.

Scottish law (unlike its English counterpart) does not clearly distinguish between varying degrees of care for children than adults passengers. But with care and precautions to be taken may be regarded as a reasonable degree there will inevitably be different for children.

This means that the assessment of risks and hazards in your home, you need the additional risk, there may be a problem when the vigilance of the children at home. This may be the case if you have a house, the young children of relatives or friends. Accordance with Scottish law, to take care of the same work there are intruders, such children have access to a private garden to retrieve a football, and invited to the property, the visitors by the employer.

The responsibility of a child passenger safety

There are a lot of things at home and garden, and they may have reasonable safety of adults, the children's hazards. Children under five, especially in risk, and in 2010/11, ISD Scotland, 1904 in the hospital records of the five-year-old age group as the home to unexpected results.

For examples of children's risk include:

- Power outlet
- Standing Committee of water (bathtub, swimming pool, pond, or even water in the bucket)
- Kitchen equipment (cooking utensils, stoves, etc.)
- Falls (from the stairs, trees, ledges, windows, etc.)
- Jane
- If the TV object to the child pulled
- Incorrect use of toxic / hazardous substances (pills, drugs, berries, etc.)

If a child is subjected to the accident in your home, you can be taken to court, the pursuit of physical, psychological and financial (cost of treatment) compensation results.

The key thing to keep in mind, the Court will consider the one can not expect the child can fully understand or realize that the adults in the same way, dangerous. This is a home occupation tax, to ensure that any children to visit and take any necessary reasonable precautions and safe environment.