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Motor Schools Association of Great Britain membership magazine; driver training and testing; road safety; general motoring matters
Motor Schools Association of Great Britain membership magazine; driver training and testing; road safety; general motoring matters
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NewsExtra<br />
New survey looking for views on growth<br />
of online road safety training<br />
Highways England and Road Safety GB<br />
have teamed up with Agilysis to conduct<br />
a review of online road safety education<br />
provision – and are calling for the help of<br />
road safety practitioners.<br />
With face-to-face interaction with<br />
schools and pupils severely restricted,<br />
the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated<br />
the development and delivery of online<br />
road safety educational resources.<br />
With this in mind, the purpose of this<br />
review is to ascertain the changes that<br />
have occurred to online road safety<br />
education in the past 12 months.<br />
The results will be used to showcase<br />
best practice, share resources across the<br />
sector and support road safety<br />
practitioners moving forward.<br />
As part of the project, road safety<br />
practitioners are being asked to complete<br />
a short survey about all road safety<br />
educational resources that they have<br />
developed and/or delivered in recent<br />
years across the UK. See panel at the<br />
end of the article for the link.<br />
The review is not limited purely to<br />
schools – responses are welcome about<br />
road safety education for all ages and<br />
road user groups.<br />
Lorraine Willis, Highways England’s<br />
regional road safety co-ordinator for<br />
eastern England, said: “Road safety<br />
education in the UK has previously been<br />
predominantly through face-to-face<br />
interaction, be that in schools, through<br />
interactive workshop sessions such as<br />
Bikesafe, or police referrals through<br />
NDORS courses.<br />
“While some education was already<br />
delivered online, the pandemic and<br />
associated lockdown in <strong>March</strong> 2020<br />
accelerated the development and delivery<br />
of a suite of online resources that may<br />
remain the preferred choice of delivery of<br />
road safety education once restrictions<br />
are eased.<br />
“For some, these resources are the<br />
transfer of existing materials to an online<br />
platform, for others it may be a totally<br />
new resource.”<br />
Matt Staton, Road Safety GB director<br />
of research, said: “For Road Safety GB it<br />
is important to understand how road<br />
safety education practice is developing in<br />
this area, what support professionals<br />
might need, or where there is expertise<br />
that could be shared with others.<br />
“I’m really pleased to be working with<br />
Highways England and Agilysis in<br />
undertaking this work and would<br />
encourage all road safety practitioners of<br />
every kind to complete the survey<br />
regardless of how<br />
much, or little,<br />
online training<br />
they deliver.”<br />
To take<br />
part click<br />
here<br />
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