Road Safety, Cycling and Walking to School

Walking

If you live close enough, encourage your children to walk to school. It will help them keep fit, be alert and become more street-wise.

Provide bright and reflective clothing, supportive shoes and a back pack. For younger children, either walk with your children (it's a good opportunity to have a chat), or get together with other parents and take it in turns to accompany other children (a "walking bus").

A Walking Bus is an initiative to encourage more children, accompanied by adults, to walk to school and by doing so reduce traffic and congestion outside schools.

Walking as a group and using an agreed route, the children are under the supervision of at least two responsible adults - a "driver" and "conductor" - who are known to the school. Any volunteers involved with a Walking Bus have to complete a police criminal background check.

Some walking buses operate every school day while others operate one or two days a week - this depends on the number of adult volunteers involved.

Lancashire County Council's Road Safety staff will risk assess routes and provide necessary training for all volunteers. Children and adults involved in a Walking Bus must wear reflective tabards, which are supplied free of charge by the Road Safety Office.

Programme "Right Start" (Contact Anita Bailey on 01772 534514) and Cycle Training Programme "Passport To Safer Cycling" (Contact Peter Byers on 01772 534661).