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A child who isn't old enough or who doesn't feel comfortable should never be left home alone. If this is the case, it's best to look into childcare options that might work for your family. Read our advice on this below.

As your child gets older, talk to them about how they feel about being left home alone. If they're worried, work out what parts of being home alone worry them. Do they feel safe in the neighbourhood? Are they afraid of the dark?

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Give your child a call every so often. If it's the first time they've been left alone, try to check in regularly. Even if your child is older and has been left home alone before, you should still check in once every few hours, particularly if you're out late.

As you build up to leaving your child alone for longer stretches, keep checking in and making sure they're comfortable. Being left home alone for an hour is very different to being alone for a whole afternoon or overnight.

Sometimes it might be better to arrange for someone to stay with your child instead of leaving them home alone. This doesn't have to be an extra cost - family and friends that you know and trust may be able to help.

If you have a child with disabilities, your local council has a duty to provide help and support. This includes short break services, holiday play schemes, care at home and financial help. GOV.UK provides more detail on what's available.

Do you work or volunteer with children and families in the UK? Visit NSPCC Learning to download our Home alone guide, which contains advice and tips you can share with parents and carers to help them decide if their child is ready to be left alone.

Released in November 1990, the movie's mixture of slapstick comedy and heartwarming holiday themes made it the highest-grossing domestic comedy of all time. In it Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, who protects his house using creative traps to ward off burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) after he is mistakenly left at home while his family's in Paris.

This time around I noticed all the little checks that were in place but nevertheless failed. It turns out the movie is surprisingly detailed on all these things and made a lot more attempts than I initially thought to make it almost inevitable that Kevin would be stuck home alone. So the thing I decided to do was write an incident investigation the way I would do them for work issues. I can't interview people, but I got a fully recorded movie to work with, along with a script draft found online, which sometimes contains additional or conflicting information with what the movie contains.

This report looks at events that have transpired in December 1990, where a family living in Chicago and on their way to France for Christmas ended up leaving their eight years old son home alone. The case has gotten worldwide recognition due to the creative ways in which the aforementioned youngest child managed to foil the plans of two burglars through creative and rather violent use of home supplies.

The adults are divided up, one from each couple in each shuttle. It is important to point out that the act of dividing groups like that gives an immediate rational explanation for not being able to see any of the kids in the local shuttle: the count is correct, therefore the kid has to be in the other van. This can be believed regardless of whether the kid is there or stuck at home.

Everyone instead appears to be relieved that they managed to make it at the last moment, while the stewards rush everyone into their seats to leave on time. One of the parents mentions hoping they forgot nothing. Of course, by now everyone in the audience is aware of the irony that the youngest of the household has been left behind, unaware of all of the commotion by having been isolated in the attic, alone and fast asleep.

The adults are dismayed on the flight, blaming themselves and feeling horrible. They have tried reaching home through the captain's phone, but since it's out of order at their house, they're stuck waiting. Some of them try to minimize the guilt: "We'll call when we land", "we didn't forget him, we just miscounted", but the mother is still distraught and showing remorse.

Ultimately, the family had to focus on getting back home as soon as possible to do things by themselves. No flights are available, not even private ones, until Friday morning, two days away. They end up dividing up into two swimlanes to help resolve things: the mother will remain at the airport as a standby to grab the first flight to America she can get, while the rest of the family will go to the home they were expected at in Paris to try the phones some more, at least until Friday when they can then fly back.

Once at the Parisian home, the father has trouble reaching anyone actually speaking English over the phone, and when he does they're all away for shopping or just not home. Some of the children feel bad about it, while others (mainly those who had ongoing quarrels with the one left behind) see it as some sort of well-deserved retribution with limited concerns otherwise ("we have smoke detectors [and] live in the most boring street in the United States where nothing dangerous will ever happen").

This appears to be the end of efforts as we know them from the family's side. The mother, still stuck in Paris, is haggling to see if she could trade or buy tickets from other travellers to make it home faster. She finally manages to trade a place for jewelry, cash, and first class tickets later in the week, and can board towards America.

Interestingly, by the time the adults have given up on reaching neighbours, it appears that phone communication was established back to the house since the child stuck home alone manages to order pizza. It is unclear why the rest of the family in Paris appears not to have tried again (or if they did whether they missed the child's presence who was running errands), but the phone isn't of consequence for the rest of events. There are various possible explanations ranging from the predicted time given by the worker at their door to having tried other ways to do things, but we have no information regarding what they are.

By December 24th, the mother had reached the United States via Dallas and was by then stranded in Scranton, but couldn't make it any closer to Chicago due to everything being booked, once again. By then she's been awake for about 60 hours. She meets a man in a Polka band who offers to drive her home in the back of a Budget rental moving truck while on their way to Milwaukee, which she agrees to more out of desperation (she mentions selling her soul if she must) than love of polka.

She makes it home a bit more than half a day later, on Christmas morning. The rest of the family drops home from their Friday morning flight a few minutes later, to the two others' surprise. The child makes peace with everyone, and describes his period home alone as thankfully pretty uneventful.

These events unfold in 1990, where for the most part, if you don't know someone's phone number, you just don't really get an easy way to reach them out rapidly. What we see here is the family trying the whole playbook, and opening up new swimlanes to get back to Chicago ASAP: the mother staying standby in hopes of getting home faster, and the rest of the family waiting on a certain result by Friday morning. To go faster, she trades her jewelry and tries to negotiate with other passengers, and ends up riding hours in the back of a truck with strangers. Still, they end up home at the same time, to a child who was fortunately safe and healthy.

It's interesting to point out that the checklist wouldn't have solved this incident in this case; the headcounts were successfully (albeit incorrectly) completed. Similarly, the other preventative measures only lower the chance of such incidents from happening but do not negate it: a family could be staying at a different place where their clock isn't available, a last-minute airplane model change could throw off buddy systems, and a family member might get lost elsewhere than their home (i.e. at the airport or at destination).

There is in fact a single recommendation the author could come up with that might help prevent another home alone situation: redundant awareness and responsibility. We propose what is in effect a "pod" system: each adult is assigned two to three children (ideally theirs since they already have an inclination to care for them), and each child in the pod is made aware of who else is with them. People in a given pod should put their luggage together, have their tickets handled by their responsible adult, and sit together as much as possible.

There are much simpler scenarios where things could have failed, such as a kid making it to a correct headcount, then having to go to the bathroom before leaving, and doing so with no adults seeing them. This, once again, could have happened either at home, at the airport, or anywhere in-between. Emergency and rush situations can be created easily as well: one of the shuttles could have gotten a flat tire, a pick-pocket or accidental dropping of ticket while accessing other papers, someone could have injured themselves on ice, the fallen branch that destroyed the power line could have laid across the street and slowed things down, connecting flights could have been delayed, someone could lose a bag, and so on.

I believe the most effective option is the pod system, which is a strategy that would highlight breakdowns faster and allow prompt action at limited cognitive cost with minimal planning. Having multiple people involved in each group with redundant responsibilities increases the likelihood that any one of them notices what might be wrong, especially if the adults are overwhelmed dealing with things only they can do. Specifically, this approach shows promise regardless of what happens to an individual, not just being forgotten at home.

Finally I would like to compliment Kevin on his solid infosec skills in never mentioning he was left home alone, despite that potentially speeding up someone helping him given the circumstances. I am also a bit disconcerted how not one but two dads could potentially make a plan by which they were not all at the airport at least 5-8 hours ahead of their flights, which would have had everyone wake up before 4am and have avoided the power outage, but this is meant to be a blameless report after all. ff782bc1db