Schools road safety education programme

Aims

The Programme aims to:

• Ensure that every child receives traffic education each year of its school life.
• Enable schools to introduce a more structured road safety message into the curriculum through the provision of traffic education guidelines, materials, resources, expertise, knowledge, support and presentation to children in the context of relevant projects.

Objectives

• To provide a training session to each school to introduce the idea of Road Safety Education in the curriculum and the potential within Road Safety Education for meeting the needs of the National Curriculum.
• To visit the school on a regular basis to update resource information, talk about projects and project ideas, focus on particular curriculum subjects, and meet the needs of individual schools and to share examples of good practice.
• To support the provision of school based training and the needs of the Guidelines with appropriate resources. These resources will be constantly reviewed and renewed. Some will be made available free to schools, others on loan, to support projects. Schools should also be given the opportunity to purchase a wide range of Road Safety resources from other agencies.
• To encourage all schools to make a commitment to writing a school road safety policy, to provide officer support for the process and support safer routes projects.
• To support projects with officer involvement/input where appropriate including presentations to children.
• To develop strategies in partnership with schools to involve parents in the Road Safety Education of their child(ren).