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) provides information on how to create a traffic policy on their website.
This includes the creation of a working group to investigate what the school is already doing, what is working well and not so well, and what challenges the traffic policy needs to address. A template and examples are also provided on the website.
Danish schools implementing a school traffic policy include relevant actors in their work. These are, for instance, the school board, the school´s student council, parents, the school management, teachers, and representatives from the municipality and local police.
All Danish municipalities are furthermore encouraged to put traffic safety education on the agenda of regular meetings between head teachers and the responsible administrative body at the municipalities. This allows municipalities to be informed whether traffic safety education is done at the schools and whether the schools fulfil the national goals for traffic education.
A majority of Danish schools have a traffic policy and surveys show that schools with traffic policies have more children that travel to school by themselves.
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Danish Road Safety Commission (2021), 2021-2030.
(Originally referenced: Danish Road Safety Commission (2013), National Action Plan 2013-2020.)
Sikker Traffik, Trafik Politik.