The key responsibility of a safety gate is to prevent a toddler or young child from going somewhere they shouldn’t. In most cases, it’s to stop a toddler going up or down a flight of stairs that they could, if not monitored, fall down.

The sample of this stair gate that we tested failed a key safety test that checks whether a gate is strong enough to withstand repeated pushing and pulling over time. The safety standard states it should stay in place through 10,000 cycles, but this gate became dislodged after 2,570 cycles.

This could mean a child’s safety is at risk, which is why we’ve made it a Don’t Buy.

Munchkin, the company that owns Lindam, told us it is not aware of any evidence supporting our allegations. Munchkin said it has reviewed and analysed customer complaints for the gate and not encountered any of the purported safety or reliability issues that we have alleged. It has said it has performed an internal inventory audit and found its gates to be compliant with all product safety standards as per EN1930.