Abstract: Incidents in which left-behind children are injured have occurred from time to time, and such incidents have also aroused great concern from society and the media. When left-behind children have safety problems such as violations, their parents are not around, and the children themselves lack safety education knowledge, which makes it difficult for others to discover and help in time. Over time, the children may suffer deeper psychological trauma. This article uses cross-research method and descriptive research method to study and analyze the status quo of left-behind children and public facilities, the significance of public facilities to left-behind children, and the design points of left-behind children’s public facilities. This article uses the relevant knowledge of design to propose how to design public facilities with safety education functions to reduce the risk of abuse by left-behind children, and to increase the importance that adults attach to child safety education.

Key words: left-behind children, public facilities, safety education