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 are engaged in the topic of traffic safety, but not all.
The Children’s Traffic Club aims to ensure that day-care centres include traffic in a natural way during the implementation of activities scheduled throughout the year, and that traffic is a topic in the cooperation with parents. The NCRS regards the day-care centre as a public arena where they meet everyone and thereby can ensure a greater provision of training on an equal basis.
The Children’s Traffic Club for day-care centres started in 2016, and about 50% of all day-care centres in Norway had become a member by 2019.
Trygg Trafikk aims to reach four target groups with the Children’s Traffic Club:
- Parents of children aged 0 to 10 years old.
- Kindergarten teachers and staff (assistants).
- Teachers in lower primary school (children aged 5/6 to 10 years old).
- Staff in after-school care (5/6 to 10 years old).
With regards to the latter, the after-school care is situated at the primary school and accommodates the children before and after school. It usually opens at 07:00 and is open until school starts, and then opens again after school hours until approximately 17:00. Some hours each week is free for students in the first three grades, which is part of a new arrangement of the national government to have more children attend after-school care. Over 90% of first graders attend due to the start of subsidies, which is extended to the third grade as from the 2024-2025 school year.
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Trygg Trafikk, Barnas Trafikklub.
- For parents of children aged 0 to 10 years old.
- For kindergarten teachers and staff (assistants).
- For teachers in lower primary school (children aged 5/6 to 10 years old).
- For staff in after-school care (5/6 to 10 years old).
LEARN! Manual Example #3: The Problem Analysis and Needs Assessment for the Children’s Traffic Club.