Safety Rails for Childrens Beds

The move from cot to first bed can be as nervous a time for a parent than it can for a child. While pillows at the side of a childrens bed will help ease the blow of a tumble out of bed, there really is only one way to prevent it completely - a safety rail.

Quite simply a safety rail is a piece of wood, or metal bar that attaches to the side of a childrens bed in order to keep a child within the sleeping area on the bed. Some furniture manufacturers add these as optional extras to childrens beds, but some build the safety rail into the bed - something that is especially useful when the aesthetic design of the bed lends itself to smaller children (racing car beds for example).

Most childrens beds within the UK have a set width on the side panel, enabling the parent a much wider variety of safety rail to choose from rather than being restricted to the safety rail made by the same company as the bed.