§ Mr. Greenwayasked the Secretary of State for Transport what liaison takes place between his Department and other bodies on the question of road safety education in schools, particularly on the question of training child cyclists.
§ Mrs. ChalkerMy Department, including the transport and road research laboratory, takes a leading role nationally in road safety education, working closely with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools, the Schools Council and the Health Education Council and the schools traffic education programme (STEP) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
TRRL, in collaboration with RoSPA, has played a major role in the development of new materials for the revised national cycling proficiency scheme. The new scheme is designed both to provide more effective instruction in safe cycling and to include a higher educational content, so that courses can be more easily incorporated into the schools curriculum.