Safe travel
Schools
The challenge
To promote and encourage children and parents to travel sustainably to school whilst reducing the number of collisions and casualties involving young people.
What we do
- Bikeability training for children and adults.
- School Crossing Patrols helping children and parents cross the road
- Volunteer School Crossing Marshals
- School Streets – helping schools set up traffic free roads.
- Tips to deal with parking and congestion outside schools
- School Travel Plan
- Walking Bus
- Signpost to road safety resources or advice – see the sections below.
What you can do
Devon County Council is changing. Government funding for many services has been severely reduced so we are keen to empower school communities to build on their own strengths and improve things for themselves.
Promote and encourage children, parents and staff to make more sustainable journeys and reduce car use wherever possible. For example:
- Host our free Bikeability courses.
- Free adult cycle confidence sessions to encourage staff to cycle.
- Highway Code Rule 7 is the Green Cross Code – teach children safe ways for children to cross a road.
- Set up a Park and Stride scheme.
- Set up a Walking Bus.
- Recruit a Volunteer School Crossing Marshal.
- Set up a School Street – traffic free road outside you school.
- Walk to School Challenge.
- Walk to School Week.
- Tips to deal with parking and congestion outside schools
- Travel sustainably by car
- Deliver road safety lessons to your pupils. The next section has some links that we recommend.
Free online road safety education resources & advice
- Share this Space including our new Road Safety films and images.
- Safe Cycling
- Highway Code rules for pedestrians.
- Learn to Ride a Scooter – advice from Sustrans.
- Teach your child to ride a bike without stabilisers in nine steps – advice from Sustrans.
- Govt’s THINK Road Safety Education resources.
- Tools for Schools from Bikeability
- TWINKL – Road Safety Resources.
- Top 10 tips for cycling in traffic – advice from Cycling UK.
- How to cycle safely at road junctions – advice from Cycling UK.