The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) is seeking applications from organisations who have interventions that they would like to be included in a new resource for young road user education.
Led by Dan Quin, NFCC road safety lead, the Young Road User Education Intervention Toolkit is being developed in partnership with Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service’s Road Safety Team.
It is aimed at 16-24 year-olds – and sets out to promote best practice.
Interventions included in the toolkit will be made available to blue light or local authority organisations at no cost.
The NFCC says: “This collaborative initiative will form an important move forward for a sector approach to young road user education, where practitioners can offer support to each other and share resources to enable consistent, evidence based, customisable, fit for purpose interventions across the country.
“This will enable the potential that together, using safe systems and best practice, serious and fatal collisions amongst 16-24 year olds on our roads can be reduced to zero.”
The toolkit will be hosted on the Staywise platform from September 2024 and applications to it were opened at Young Driver Focus on 22 May.
The deadline for applications is 30 June. Click here to apply.
Interventions offered up in the application process will be assessed by an expert panel against industry agreed criteria to ensure that any intervention entered into the toolkit represents best practice.
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