DEIGHTON mum Stacey Rodgers is backing a carbon monoxide campaign launched at the House of Lords yesterday.
The mother of 10-year-old Dominic, who died at from carbon monoxide poisoning in February 2004, is supporting a poster campaign launched at Westminster.
Its aim is to highlight the dangers of carbon monoxide among children.
Charity CO-Gas Safety has created a competition to be taken into schools to teach children about the killer gas.
Stacey Rodgers said that education was the way forward to tackle the problem.
She said if children learned about carbon monoxide while they were young it was likely to stay with them for life.
The campaign was launched by Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
At the event he met the parents of Wakefield children Bobby and Christi, who died from killer fumes in Corfu in 2006.
Football-mad Dominic was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning at his Spaines Road home in Fartown as he slept.
Fumes from a flue seeped from a neighbour’s faulty boiler into a passageway and then into his bedroom.
Carbon monoxide poisoning kills 40 people per year in the UK and injures around 300.
Earlier this year Yorkshire was named among the hotspots for cases of the silent killer, with three people dying and 10 people injured in the 12 months to May.
Mrs Rodgers wants homeowners to check for the gas regularly by using a special alarm which works like a smoke alarm and makes a noise if gas is detected. Portable detectors are also available and can be taken abroad on holiday.
