main content Child car seat fitting advice

When choosing a car seat, it is important to get help and advice to ensure you select the correct seat for your child and car. Research shows that a staggering four out of five car seats are not fitted properly, often because parents do not get the correct information they need.

Our car seat centre gives free, impartial advice on choosing and fitting your car seat, please contact us to book an appointment.  

We also offer an accreditation scheme for retailers so they can provide specialist advice when selling child car seats.

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Car seat centre

Our child car seat centre offers advice to parents, grandparents and carers on the correct use and fitting of all child car seats. Not all car seats fit every type of car, so, before buying a seat, come along and find which one fits your car from our large selection. If you have a seat already then we can check it is fitted properly, to give you peace of mind. Please note, we do not sell seats, we can only provide advice.

The service is free to anyone who lives or works in Bromley borough and who transports children in their car. To make an appointment please contact us.

Retailer accreditation scheme

Through our retailer training scheme, shops across the borough can achieve 3 levels of accreditation (bronze, silver and gold) for their car seat fitting service. Employees who have achieved this accreditation can be identified by a badge.

A bronze badge indicates that the wearer is qualified to give basic car seat advice about weight groups, moving baby from one stage to the next stage, airbags, harness adjustment, ISOFIX (International Standards Organisation FIX - a system for installing car seats in a car) and the law.

All shops in the borough now have bronze accredited advisors. These are:

• Mothercare, Orpington and Bromley
• Halfords, Orpington, Bromley and Shirley
• Babycare, Petts Wood
• Babybaby, West Wickham
• Munchkins, Orpington.

Silver accreditation is only given when the Council’s experts are satisfied that staff are able to deal with the practical fitting of car seats. Currently, the only shops who have silver accredited fitters in the borough are:

• Babybaby, West Wickham
• Babycare, Petts Wood
• Mothercare, Orpington
• Halfords, Orpington

Gold accreditation is only obtained when staff are qualified to train other colleagues.

Contacts

Telephone:  020 8313 4498
Fax:  020 8313 1948
e-mail:  road.safety@bromley.gov.uk

Address:
Road Safety, Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH