Our Road Safety ‘offer’ to schools
- Bikeability training for children
- Walkability – child pedestrian training
- School Crossing Patrols helping children and parents cross the road
- Volunteer School Crossing Marshals
- Tips to deal with parking and congestion outside schools
- School Travel Plan – the first step for the school to set out their sustainable travel credentials
- Walking Bus
- Bike Bus – brings children together to ride to school as a group
- Park and Stride
- Parking Buddies signs and road safety banners
- Adult Cycle Confidence Sessions for staff
- The Road Safety team cannot deliver presentations or workshops in schools. However, the next section below has some recommended road safety resources and advice
Free online road safety education resources and advice
- Tailored cycling related resources for schools (Bikeability)
- Government’s THINK Road Safety Education resources
- Share this Space including our Road Safety animations and images
- Bikeability
- Safe Cycling
- Highway Code rules for pedestrians
- Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Road Safety resources and visits to schools
- Road Safety presentation/film by Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
- Learn to Ride a Scooter – advice from Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
- Teach your child to ride a bike without stabilisers in nine steps – advice from Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
- Top 10 tips for cycling in traffic – advice from Cycling UK.
- How to cycle safely at road junctions – advice from Cycling UK
Other useful links
- Assessment of Walked Routes to School
- GOV.UK – Child car seats: the law
- Resources to support schools to promote safe active travel (Public Health England)
- Living Streets
- Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
- Devon County Council | Services and information for Devon residents
- Live traffic and roadworks near your school