DOGS Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, will be delivering dog safety workshops to children across North and West Yorkshire this week as part of its second annual Be Dog Smart week.

The charity’s Education and Community Officer for North and West Yorkshire region, Laura-Jane Muscroft, based at Dogs Trust Leeds, will be visiting schools across the region, reaching more than 1,000 children over the course of the week, to ensure they understand how to behave around dogs, particularly in the home.

So far this year Laura-Jane has held workshops in over 71 primary schools, reaching around 10,000 pupils.

A survey of parents revealed that 39 per cent of children in the Yorkshire and Humber region come into contact with a dog every single day but 66 per cent of busy parents in the region admitted they had never taught their child to behave around dogs.