To assist in achieving these challenging targets, the road safety education provision within schools has a crucial role in developing children and young people’s attitudes and behaviours to become safer road users, as children and as adults in later life. Consequently, within the strategy there are a number of action measures to improve further the road safety education provision in schools. During the period April to June 2011, all primary and post-primary schools across Northern Ireland were invited to participate in a survey via an online questionnaire.
In 2011, the Department of the Environment (DOE) launched a new road safety strategy for Northern Ireland, ‘Northern Ireland’s Road Safety Strategy to 2020’ with 199 cross-departmental action measures and four key targets for the reduction in the number of deaths and serious injuries caused on Northern Ireland’s roads.
A Baseline Survey of Road Safety Education in Primary and Post-Primary Schools across Northern Ireland