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AMY'S LAW - Scalding water taps banned after Sunday Mail campaign.
Sunday Mail 4 September 2005.

BATH taps in new and refurbished homes in Scotland are to be fitted with anti-scalding valves.

Builders will be ordered to put in the thermostats from next May or face fines.

The move comes after a Sunday Mail campaign highlighted the victims of bathtime scaldings.

We backed campaigners demanding that the £80 valves, which ensure water temperature does not exceed 43°C, become compulsory. We told how the fitting would have saved nine-year-old Amy Reilly from agony. Amy was left fighting for her life when she was scalded as a two-year-old after falling into a bath and suffering third-degree burns to 50 per cent of her body.

Her mum Tracey, 33, who was so traumatised that she had to have two years of counselling after the accident, has been fighting for the compulsory thermal mixing valves.

Tracey, of Pumpherston, West Lothian, said: 'This is really good news. It's massive step in the right direction'. She added: 'I would like to see them in every home.'

The Holyrood petitions committee, led by convener Michael McMahon, also campaigned for the changes.

McMahon, Labour MSP for Hamilton North and Bellshill, welcomed the new guideline.

He said: 'I'm delighted that the Executive have listened to our committee's recommendations and acted by introducing a failsafe, inexpensive way of saving lives and stopping people being disfigured. According to the Scottish Burned Children's Club, 20 per cent of hospital burn patients under the age of 14 suffer their injuries from bath water.

Last November, 17-year-old Darren Ferguson told the petitions committee his face had been permanently scarred by bath water when he was a baby. He said a thermostatic device could have prevented his lifetime of pain.

Deputy Communities Minister Johann Lamont said that, until now, there had been advice on temperature control but no mandatory regulations.

He added: 'There are simple precautions that everyone should take to prevent scalding.

'We have decided we should act to help prevent these accidents.'