Educators

Does your policy include and promote the Key Road Safety Messages for children?
How does it promote them

• With your staff?
• With the children?
• With the families?

How does your policy encourage staff members to promote Road Safety Education?

• Does it recognise the responsibility of staff members to keep children safe and to provide ongoing road safety education in their everyday program?
• Does it address the need for staff members to promote road safety?
• Does it recognise the responsibility of staff members to keep up-to-date in road safety education, e.g. through attendance at Early Childhood Road Safety Education workshops?

Does your policy include regular hands-on learning experiences, both planned and spontaneous?

• Does it refer to the Kids and Traffic resources and how to use them?
• Does it support the ‘real-life’ learning opportunities families can provide for children in the traffic environment?

How are the families in your service included?

• Does the policy reflect your partnership with and support for families in keeping their children safe as passengers, pedestrians and at play?
• Does your policy refer to safe centre practices for children as passengers, pedestrians and at play?
• Does it promote helmet wearing on bikes/trikes or wheeled toys both inside and outside the service?
• Does it promote safe arrival and departure practices?
• Does it reflect safe travel and excursion practices?
• Does it recognise the educational value of excursions and the opportunities they provide for discussing road safety in real life situations?

Does your policy include how and when it will be evaluated?

• Does it include strategies for evaluation?
• Does it suggest how and when evaluation happens (eg when problems or changes occur)? If you would like to read more about policies click here.

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