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Essentials: Selling Highchairs? The Standards That Matter
Essentials is our new series that offers clear, practical need-to-knows that you can get through in minutes — the regulation, standard or requirement you need, stripped to what matters. This edition covers highchairs.
Every highchair on the UK market needs to meet one standard — but "meeting" it means more than a single tick-box, and the exclusions catch people out more often than the requirements do.
Selling Children's Highchairs in the UK sets out the full regulatory picture: what GPSR and EU GPSR require, what BS EN 14988:2017+A2:2024 actually covers, and what it doesn't.
Convertible highchairs are where most confusion sits. If a highchair converts into another product, such as a low chair or swing, that configuration isn't automatically covered by the same testing — each one needs its own. The guide also confirms where things stand after October 2025, when highchairs were removed from the scope of UK flammability regulations entirely, while remaining fully subject to general product safety law.
The guide covers key areas such as:
• The regulations and standard that apply to every highchair sold in the UK
• Exactly what's excluded, including convertible products and medical use
• What's changed most recently
• What you need to know if you sell outside of the UK.
For manufacturers, importers and retailers, this is the difference between assuming a highchair is compliant and knowing it.
FIRA members can download Selling Children's Highchairs in the UK here for FREE.
Available to non-members (priced £50) from the FIRA Bookshop.
