National Burn Awareness Day 2025

Children’s Burns Trust is issuing an urgent call to parents and carers following alarming new data from the International Burn Injury Database (iBID), which reveals a 16.4% rise in the number of children with severe hot drink burns between 2022 and 2024. These are not minor injuries, every child included in these numbers required admission to a Specialist Burns Service because their burns were too serious to be treated in A&E or general hospitals. One Spill Can Change a Child’s Life.

Hot drinks remain the leading cause of burns to children in the UK, and due to their small size, a single spill can cover a large portion of a child’s body, often resulting in life-changing injuries and long-term psychological trauma.

Despite this, these accidents are entirely preventable by keeping hot drinks out of reach.