Road Safety Education
- Smart Steps
- Challenges & Choices
- Keys for Life
- Road Aware Professional Development
- Road Aware Resources
Smart Steps (0-4 year olds and parents)
Parents, carers and families play an essential role in children's road safety education.
What happens to children in the early years has consequences right through the course of their lives. There are many opportunities to get involved and make a difference to the lives of children and young people.
Evidence shows that the most effective time to get involved in good road safety practices is early childhood, including the ante-natal period.
Smart Steps aims to promote parent and community involvement in road safety education and improve road safety outcomes for children aged 0 – 4 years. Training is offered to child health professionals and community agencies who provide a service to parents/carers/families who have young children. It supports and encourages parents and carers to model safe behaviours and make safer decisions for young children in traffic.
Smart Steps is a parent and carer education program regarding the use of:
- child car restraints and general passenger safety
- safe pedestrian practices
- safe places to play.
Challenges and Choices’ (4-14 year olds)
Parents, carers and families play an essential role in children's road safety education.
Challenges and Choices aims to provide:
- road safety resources and professional development for school staff who teach students in Kindergarten to Year 10
- parents/carers with resources and information specific to their child’s age and road safety issues
- professional development for tertiary students and staff
support to school staff when planning and implementing road safety programs and initiatives.
Keys for Life (15-20 year olds)
Keys for Life aims to prepare young people for a lifetime of safer driving by:
- promoting positive road users attitudes and behaviours
- promoting extensive and quality supervised driving practice
- involving parents and the community in youth road safety education.
Two resources have been developed to support this aim:
Keys for Life pre-driver program
A pre-driver (before L plates) program for young people (15 and 16 year olds) at school and out of school, including an opportunity for young people to sit the road rules test at school.
Keys for Life parent workshop to raise awareness about issues affecting young drivers and passengers and to promote increased supervised driving hours.
Keys for Life promotes learner drivers accumulating as much driving practice as possible. More information about this approach is available on the RoadTrip 120 website.
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