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- Promoting car-sharing
- Policy Documents and Advice on School Travel Plans
- Resources to assist you in compiling your School Travel Plan
- Teaching resources
- Promoting walking
- Promoting cycling
- Promoting bus-use
- Infrastructure Development
- Health
- Road Safety
- Child car seat legislation
- Journey Planning
- Useful Websites
- Case Studies
Promoting car-sharing
Policy documents and advice on School Travel Plans
- A Good Practice Guide to School Travel Plans
DfT resource, providing information on walking, cycling, encouraging bus use and carsharing. It also gives advice on transport provision for children with special needs and sustainable travel programmes within and outside the curriclum.
- School Travel
A DfT site which provides parents, teachers and local authorities with a wide range of information available on current action to promote safe, healthy and sustainable travel to school.
- Local Agenda 21
From here you will be able to check out six LA21 projects that young people have got involved in and the websites they have produced.
- Making the Connections: Final Report on Transport and Social Exclusion
Report from the Social Exclusion Unit on the links between Transport and Social Exclusion, including sections on accessibility planning for educational establishments.
Resources to help you develop your School Travel Plan
- A safer journey to school - A Guide to School Travel Plans.
This DfT resource is acomprehensive guide for parents, teachers and governors on how to set up, map out and take forward a travel plan. It includes guidance on how to develop safer routes to school, accesses the possible modes of transport and how to go about seeking funding.
- Sustrans guide to setting up a travel plan
An easy to read newsletter which gives step by step advice and guidence on how to set up a travel plan for your school.
- Example of Primary School Questionnaire
This questionnaire is to find out how the pupils of the school normally travel to and from school. The results of these questionnaires will be used by the school travel working group to help develop your school travel plan.
- Example of Secondary School Questionnaire
This questionnaire is to find out how the pupils of the school normally travel to and from school. The results of these questionnaires will be used by the school travel working group to help develop your school travel plan.
- Example of College Questionnaire
This questionnaire is to find out how the students normally travel to and from college. The results of these questionnaires will be used by the travel working group to help develop your school travel plan.
- School / Staff Questionnaire
This questionnaire is to find out how the staff of the school/college normally travel to and from work. The results of these questionnaires will be used by the school travel working group to help develop your school travel plan.
- School Travel Questionnaire for Parents
A useful example of a school travel questionnare to be completed by parents to be used in accessing what the needs of your travel plan are.
- Ideas on running a School Car Free Day
A one page guide presenting some useful ideas on way to promote and encourge people to join in with Car Free Day at your local school.
Teaching resources
- School Travel Resource Pack
This pack contains valuable health and safety information, explains how to get local communities and businesses involved and contains a comprehensive set of OHP slides and notes for use at public meetings, school assemlies, class or year group presentations, open evenings, parents evenings and coucil meetings etc.
- Young Transnet
Young TransNet is the website designed for use by children. It is designed to assist children and young people in transport research and action. The long term aim of Young TransNet is to increase walking, cycling and the use of public transport, and to reduce motor traffic.
- Useful classroom materials
The DfT database of classroom materials relating to sustainable travel.
- The Highway Code
Promoting walking
- Kent and Medway Walking bus Group
Promoting walking to school in Kent
- Walking
- The Highway Code for Pedestrians
Gives a general summary of guidenance given to pedestrians to keep themselves safe on their journeys.
- More Walking
This DfT site explains the ways in which walking can be made a safer and more social mode of transport for children to take to school.
- Lets walk to school
This is the site where you will find all the Latest News about the National Walking To School initiative. It includes parent feedback and provides teachers with pleanty of fun and effective curriculum ideas.
- Living Streets
Campaigns to make walking safer, more convenient and easier. Information on Walk to School Week and The Walking Bus.
- International Walk to School
Details of Walking to School from around the world
- Walking Bus
Hertfordshire County Council’s
- Transport & Society Network
Collection of information on walking buses
- Friends of the Earth
Leading UK environmental pressure group and network of local campaigning groups. Produces ‘The Walking bus: a safe way for children to walk to school’ £3.50
- School-run.org
Enables parents to find other parents with whom to arrange a walking bus.
Promoting cycling
- Promoting cycling in Kent
- Sustrans
A charity that works on practical projects to encourage people to walk, cycle and use public transport.
- The Highway Code for Cyclists
Gives a general summary of guiance given to cyclists to keep themsleves safe on the road.
- More Cycling
A DfT guide on the benefits of cycling and ways in which cyclists can make themselves safer on the roads.
- Cycling to school Guidelines
A DfT document outlining basic guidance parents and teachers should use when encouraging children to cycle to school. Includes a download of a cycle permit which could be used by schools.
- School cycle parking permit
An example of a perking permit registration form for cyclists, also gives guidence on safety precautions for child cyclists and parents.
- Road Safety Bicycle Check
Gives basic guidance on how to make your bicyle safe for the roads.
- British Cycling Federation
Promoting the sport of cycling throughout the UK. Information on "Get Set" cycle skills training and local clubs.
- CTC
National cycling organisation with information on local cycling groups, travel and touring, insurance and online shop
- Scottish Cycling Development Project
Raising the profile of cycling in Scotland with information, advice and cycle training.
- Bike Week
Organisers of National Bike Week
- School-run.org
Enables parents to find other parents with whom to arrange a cycle train
Promoting bus use
- Public Transport in Kent
- Better Buses
This DfT site gives guidance on the best way to improve the local bus service to the school. It provides information on the law, concerning school buses, who are the agencies schools should be working with and gives advice on funding. Aimed at parents,teachers and governors.
Infrastructure
Health
- The health benefits of Safer routes to schools
The Sustrans Routes for People Information sheet presenting facts, statsictics and promting the health benfits which cycling or walking to school can provide.
- Why Walk?
Lists all the important reasons why walking to school is amazingly benificial not only in terms of your health but also socially.
- Walking the Way to Health Initiative
This WHI website is for everyone with an interest in 'walking for health'. It offers information, support and encouragement to complete beginners, existing walkers and health and leisure professionals.
- Cycling for Better Health
This leaflet summarises the results from a cycling and health experiment and is valuable to anyone planning travel awareness programmes (such as Travelwise), Green Transport Plans, and schemes to promote more cycling as a convenient and environmentally friendly form of transport.
- Wired for Health
A joint initiative between DfEE and DH to give young people and teachers access to health information. Includes information on the National Healthy School Standard (formally known as the National Healthy Schools Scheme)
- Safe Travel to School
Healthy Schools programme under Wired for Health
- Life Bytes
Site aimed specifically at Key Stage 3 (11-14 years)
- Mind, Body & Soul
Site aimed specifically at Key Stage 4 (14-16 years)
- Young People’s Health Network
Exchanging information and ideas among professionals working on issues affecting young people’s health.
- British Heart Foundation
The aim of the BHF is to play a leading role in the fight against heart disease so that it is no longer a major cause of disability and premature death. BHF promotes walking to school in its free Active School Resource Pack.
- Health promotion agency for Northern Ireland
Addressing health issues with young people in Northern Ireland
- Paths for All Initiative
The Paths for All Initiative was established by Scottish Natural Heritage to create local path networks throughout Scotland for the enjoyment of local people and visitors.
- Health Education Board, Scotland
Health information including information on the benefits of physically active lifestyles.
Road Safety
- Department for Transport Road Safety Site Index
Includes guidance information for schools and local authorities about current action on promoting safer, healthy and sustainable travel to school.
- Roads Service – Northern Ireland
Road authority in Northern Ireland with responsibility for public roads and footways, includes Safe Routes to Schools and cycling.
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Raises awareness about the causes of road crashes and promotes effective measures to help prevent accidents or reduce their severity. Also produces guidance on cycle training.
- The Department of Transport
Road safety resource for primary schools
- Brake
Free road safety resources, case studies and teaching guides
- Child Safe Wales
Aims to reduce accident and injury to children in Wales by working with the public and professionals to raise awareness of childhood accident issues
- Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust
Aims to reduce the risk of death and disability caused to young people from head injuries through bicycling accidents by increasing awareness of the use of helmets.
- Child Accident Prevention Trust
Aims to prevent and reduce injuries caused by accidents to children and young people. CAPT carries out research, provides information, training and consultancy and gives safety advice to parents, carers, those working for children’s safety and children themselves.
- Road Danger Reduction Forum
Aims to reduce road danger as a positive way to improve the environment.
- Scottish Road Safety Campaign
The SRSC was founded in 1985. It is funded by the Scottish Executive and its remit is to develop and co-ordinate Scotland’s wide road safety initiatives and campaigns. The SRSC works closely with all local authority and police road safety units in an attempt to ensure a co-ordinated approach to road safety in Scotland.
- Roadpeace
Organisation for road traffic victims for people who have had to cope not only with sudden loss, but also the legal and social system. Many international topics for citizenship studies.
- Road Safety Council of Wales
The unitary authorities, police forces and national assembly for Wales working together to reduce causalities and accidents.
- Roads Service
Road authority in Northern Ireland with responsibility for public roads and footways, including SRS and cycling.
- Think Child Road Safety
Outlines the objectives of the Think campaign to reduce the number of children killed or seriously injured by 50% by 2010. It includes information about previous campanigns and gives the lyrics of Road Safety songs for children to sing and a fact sheet explaining effective ways of teaching your child road safety.
Child seat legislation
Journey Planning
Useful websites
Case studies
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