Road Safety Wales : Education
A main priority for Road Safety Wales Partners’ in advancing child road safety education is to advise and support parents, carers, pre-school staff and teachers on both best practice and the resources that are available to them. We encourage pre-school staff and teachers to include safety education within the context of their normal classroom work.
Support will include the provision of resources, which may be produced by the Authority or obtained from other organisations, and training for staff on their use. Road Safety Officers can also offer guidance to teachers on the selection of indicators designed to test the effectiveness of specific inputs with groups of pupils.
Where possible, Road Safety Officers will liaise with teacher training colleges to provide training sessions for student teachers on the importance of road safety and how it can be integrated into the curriculum.
Road Safety Officers will disseminate good ideas to schools, colleges and other organisations that may relate to children or adults. Training teachers and governors is one of the best ways of delivering an effective service. However where teachers and governors are not prepared to take on this role it may be necessary for Road Safety Officers to carry out this work directly in schools.
Driver education and adult education are also areas in which the road safety officer will be able to give considerable help and advice, working with employers to ensure the safety of staff while using the road and managing their occupational road risk.
