The Strictly presenter campaigned tirelessly to make Halloween costumes safer
Halloween is a fun time for families and crucial to the joy of the proceedings for many young children is picking out a costume and getting dressed up with friends for trick or treating.
The mother added: "I was talking to someone and then I heard her shout and she was on fire. It feels like she was on fire for hours, but the surgeon said it was probably just seconds," she said.The eight-year-old spent three weeks in hospital having suffered serious burns to her legs and the family's neighbour Jamie Poulton was left with second-degree burns after trying to put out the fire with his bare hands.: "This material just keeps reigniting and re-burning.
Since the incident, Claudia has worked tirelessly to campaign for greater safety around the materials used to make Halloween costumes. The presenter successfully managed to get the British Royal Consortium to release voluntary guidelines that state that toys, the umbrella children's costumes come under, are not to be made from fabric that can burn any faster than 10mm per second. This was reduced significantly from 30mm per second.
Items approved by the BRC will have a label sown into them, stating: "This garment has undergone additional safety testing for flammability".In addition, RoSPA pointed out that all elements of the costume such as wigs and face masks should be flame-retardant.
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