The Curriculum for Excellence is the philosophy underpinning the Scottish Education System and, to ensure credibility within the learning and teaching profession, Road Safety Scotland has aligned all its resources with it. A guide for teachers provides an overview of the available resources and how they support the curriculum. Road Read more…
The Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) promotes the use of traffic working groups at schools in Flanders. Such working groups consist of teachers and parents, with one person functioning as contact point. It is however not uncommon that a prevention advisor acts as contact person for traffic safety at Read more…
The Danish Ministry of Education recommends appointing a traffic contact teacher at all schools that teach pupils aged 6-16 years old. They are also encouraged to participate in the traffic contact teachers’ courses organised by the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik), which are held yearly for new and ‘old’ Read more…
The German Federal Highway Institute BASt offers a guideline which includes best practice examples for the development of safe routes to school plans. The guideline is directed to parents as well as school managers and teachers, and contains useful advice related to the process of developing, implementing and evaluating safe Read more…
Since 2016, a new Ordinance has been enacted that requires every school, kindergarten and youth centre for personal growth and development in the country to appoint its own Road Safety Committee. This Committee has to support the head teacher in: The committees have to develop road safety yearly plans, which Read more…
To support systematic and long-term traffic safety education, a school-specific traffic safety plan is drawn up. To achieve the best results, the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) recommends schools pay attention to the following topics: a safe traffic environment that is evaluated on the basis of the capabilities and needs Read more…
In its National Action Plan, the Danish Road Safety Commission recommends that all schools teaching children and youngsters aged 5-15 years old (Danish primary schools) develop a traffic policy, and that they should be supported by municipalities. In order to facilitate this recommendation, the Danish Road Safety Council (Sikker Trafik) Read more…
The Children’s Traffic Club, an initiative of the Norwegian Council for Road Safety (NCRS; Trygg Trafikk) focuses on day-care centres, because if good habits are established when the children are still small, it is likely that they themselves will become responsible road-users. Many day-care centres and families with small children Read more…
In order to encourage and support schools, nine provinces in the Netherlands have implemented a programme that rewards primary schools with a ‘road safety label’ when they implement road safety education as well as traffic safety measures in and around the school. ‘SCHOOL op SEEF’ is the programme in South Read more…
Many of the principles listed in the LEARN! Key Principles are low-cost measures. Schools can, for example, develop and implement a traffic safety policy plan and appoint a traffic safety contact teacher (see Principles #6 and #7) at little to no cost. The principles of materials needing to be up-to-date (see Principle #10) as Read more…