Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what measures they intend to implement to support schools in educating children about road safety and in reducing the number of road traffic accidents involving school children.

The Government’s flagship road safety campaign THINK! provides a wide range of free educational resources to help improve children's road safety.

THINK! launched its ‘Safe Adventures’ campaign to help parents across the country prepare their children for independent travel ahead of moving to secondary school: This activity focuses on the risky behaviours assigned to child pedestrian casualties, which includes failing to look and distractions, finding a safe place to cross and being in a hurry.

The Government is also committed to Bikeability training, a national cycle training scheme funded by the Department, which to date has trained over 4 million children to cycle safely on today’s roads. Recent funding aims to train 1 million more.