NEW national laws designed to improve child safety in cars will apply in Victoria from November.

Some time ago, I learned that my daughter was not to graduate directly from a five-point child restraint to a booster seat with a sash seatbelt. The safest option for the next few years was considered to be the H-shaped child safety harness. These harnesses retail for $40-$60, but what..read more

CHILDREN'S car seats need to be made bigger to allow for a growing number of obese children who are too heavy to use them, safety experts say.

It pays to look at child restraints from more than one angle, advises Barry Park.

ON Friday, January 28 my daughter rang Wollongong Taxis and requested a taxi with a booster seat as she has a 15-month-old baby. The taxi arrived minus the booster seat. The driver informed her that in taxis it was quite legal for her to have the child on..read more