Neighbourhood Road Safety Programmes
The Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI) funded a series of educational campaigns. These campaigns taught adults and children the skills they need to stay safe on the roads. Our campaigns were targeted in the north of the city, as accident statistics showed that this was where they were needed the most.
Schemes developed in result of this funding are still continued today across the city. Below are some descriptions of some of these schemes:
Road Safety Committees
- Are you concerned about Road Safety in your area?
- Would you like to know how to set up a Road Safety Committee to deal with road safety issues?
For many communities there are issues such as speed bumps, cycling, stolen cars and drunken pedestrians? With our help you can set up a committee and begin to develop road safety initiatives specific to your local area. As mentioned earlier, there is no age limit for any one who wants to set up or join as a committee member.
Our Walk to School
Applications for the 2007 start have now closed. If you would like your school to take part in the future, please contact us on the details at the end of the page.
The Our Walk to School scheme is currently running in 7 schools in Liverpool, these schools are in the Knotty Ash, Belle Vale and Dovecot areas.
The scheme involves teachers and children investigating the children's walk to school, and importantly identifying the road safety dangers they encounter on their route. The children also create a map of the area surrounding the school using a range of art materials and highlighting the dangers they feel are important to them (in the past this map has been prepared in 3D).
With all this evidence the children and teachers identify improvements that could be made to make the children's journey to school safer. We then work with the Safer Routes to School team to look at how to improve parent's and children's walk to school.
The children felt that a shelter could be used by parents when they are waiting to collect their children, especially when it is raining. This has encouraged more parents to walk to school and leave their cars at home. Alternatively some schools have identified that their children would benefit from some pedestrian training and are now taking part in the CrossRight Scheme.
Drive to Arrive
This is a multimedia and interactive presentation delivered on our behalf by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service. It is shown to an older age group of 16 plus and is presented in a number of different locations, for example in youth centres, E to E Provisions, Home Ground Youth Hostel and Pupil Referral Unit.
The presentation is hard hitting, using real life images of road collisions and movie scenarios illustrating the reality of life after a collision. The aim of the presentation is to educate and inform young people of the dangers of driving inappropriately and taking risks with their lives