Kerbcraft Road Safety Initiative
Kerbcraft Programme
Road Safety Initiative
Helping to keep your children safe on the roads
Road accidents involving children do happen. Our aim in Tameside is to reduce this.
The Kerbcraft Road Safety Training Scheme is designed to train children at the kerbside and enable them to find safe places to cross the road.
The training given to children is practical and will take place outside school on the streets and roads that the children and their parents use daily. The children are taken out by the Co-ordinator and trained parent volunteers in small groups of three.
All children need parental permissins to take part and the teacher collects this. One of the key elements of the scheme is to recruit and train adult / parent volunteers. These are ideally from Y1 and are trained to teach the children the skills needed to cross the road safely. This is the role of the Co-ordinator.
All volunteers are endorsed by school and are required to complete a CRB check as well as being screened through List 99. They are trained by the Co-ordiniator before teaching these skills to the children.
Sessions are set at the same time each week and last approximately an hour. Sessions are usually timed to begin at the start of the school day or first thing in the afternoon.
The key elements of the Kerbcraft Scheme are listed below:-
Safe Places To Cross The Road
The children are trainied how to find the safe places to cross the road, away from parked cars, bends and other obstructions.
Cross At Junctions
Many injuries happen to children trying to cross the road at junctions. This part of the training make the children aware of the dangers of crossing the road where cars are coming from more than two directions and teaches them a safe way to cross.
Crossing Safely At Parked Cars
Occasionally the only place to cross the road is between parked cars. Children are shown and taught how to do this safely and also how to choose where to cross the road.
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Tameside MBC
Council Offices
Wellington Road
Ashton under Lyne
Lancs
OL6 6DL
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