Children … this is your chance to win Win a one of five goody bags! goody Cut off this page then draw a bag picture on the back showing ‘‘My favourite way of travelling to school’’ How do you Then ask your parent/carer to fill in your details, and send to the following address: School Travel Competition, Road Safety, Town Hall, Norton Rd, Hove BN3 3BQ Alternatively scan the picture, including your contact details to: [email protected] travelto school? Closing date 31 December 2014 Sorry, but we cannot return any pictures. Winners will be notified by 31 January 2015. 2014/15 A practical guide for parents and carers about safer, active and sustainable travel to school in the city Scan here for the School 4953 Brighton & Hove City Council Communications Team Travel web pages How do you travel to school 2 The council has a statutory duty under the Education and Inspections Contents Act 2006 to promote sustainable travel to school, in particular the promotion of sustainable travel and transport modes on the journey to, Inside front cover Useful contacts from, and between schools and other institutions. This booklet, along with other work done within the School Travel and the Road Safety Page 2 How do children travel to Team at Brighton & Hove City Council, is part of the delivery school in Brighton & Hove? of this statutory duty. Page 3 What we are working towards Page 4-5 Walking to school Useful contacts at Walk to School campaign, Park & Stride, Child Pedestrian Training, Brighton & Hove City Council School Crossing Patrol Service School Travel Team Page 6-7 Cycling and scooting to school School Travel Planning, Safer Routes to School, Bikeability Cycle Training, Scooter Training, Cycle Walking Initiatives, Scooter Training and Scooter Storage, Sustrans Bike It Project 01273 292357 Page 8-9 Driving to school Bikeability Cycle Training & School Crossing Patrol Service Driving to School, Parking Enforcement, School 01273 293847 or 293845 Keep Clears, 20mph Child Pedestrian Training Page 10-11 Active travel to school 01273 292335 Walking Zone Maps, 5 Minute Walking Zones, School Travel Plans Road Safety Publicity & Initiatives 01273 292258 Page 12-13 Bus, train and school transport Schools Admissions Page 14-19 What’s happening at my school 01273 293653 and buses to my school 2014 - 2015 Home to School Transport Page 20 Useful websites 01273 295196 Back cover Competition Schools’ Parking Enforcement 0845 6035469 Option 3 Public Transport Team 01273 292480 For further information, or to comment on this booklet please email [email protected] How do you travel to school? 1 How do we travel to school? What we are working towards There are over 90 schools in Brighton & Hove. Our main priorities are: The chart below gives a snapshot of how children travelled to school • to encourage families to choose safer, more active and sustainable across the city between 2007/8 and 2012/13. travel options as an alternative to driving; • to reduce road traffic, ease congestion and reduce carbon emissions, Mode of Travel to School comparison especially on routes to schools; 2007/8 to 2012/13 • to contribute towards the immediate and long-term health and 60 well-being of children and young people; walking 50 • to provide guidance and support to schools which, by updating their 40 School Travel Plan, are actively promoting walking and cycling to school; % 30 car, vans & taxis • allocating Road Safety resources, for example, cycle, scooter and child 20 pedestrian training to those schools which, through their School Travel public transport Plan (STP) surveys, and associated targets, have highlighted a need for 10 training etc within their STP 0 cycling 2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 Source: 2007/8 - 2010/11 DfT. 2011/12 onwards BHCC Mode of Travel to School Surveys The Brighton & Hove City Council Mode of Travel Survey shows that nearly a third of children in the city are travelling to school by car, including vans and taxis. This has increased since last year. Each year we gather data for how children travel to school across the city. Please see www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/schooltravel for our most recent survey results. ‘ My dream way of travelling to school’ competition 2013. Overall winner Miriam, aged 6. 2 How do you travel to school? How do you travel to school? 3 Walking to School Park & Stride Park & Stride simply means driving If you don’t walk to school already, some of the way to school, parking why not consider trying it out, or at up away from the school entrance least walking part of the way? If you and walking the rest of the way. need to drive, why not park your car Park and stride is particularly away from the school and walk the good for families that live a long last five minutes? School Travel way from school and can’t walk currently run the following schemes the whole way. It has the added across the city, to encourage more benefit of reducing congestion School Crossing walking to school, and to educate around the school entrance, Patrol Service children in road safety skills. making it safer for children to Come rain or shine, school enter their school. crossing patrols are there to Walk to School Campaign help you cross the road safely on the journey to and from Many schools across the city take part in the Child Safety Training school. They have been around Walk to School campaigns which take place & Road Safety Resources for 60 years, and in Brighton twice a year, in May and October. The campaigns This scheme offers road safety skills & Hove we are proud to have are aimed at encouraging children and their training to children aged 5-8 in eighteen operating at various families to travel to school more actively. schools. The training takes place sites across the city. All School School Travel 01273 292357 in the immediate area around the children’s school. Training is Crossing Patrol Officers undertake offered to all schools with children an enhanced Disclosure & Barring aged 5-8, and is free of charge. Service (DBS) check (previously Bookings are taken annually. All known as a Criminal Record trainers undertake an enhanced Bureau [CRB] check). Finding Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) people to do this job is not check (previously known as a always easy but if you think you Criminal Record Bureau [CRB] could help, please call the School check). We also provide road safety Crossing Patrol Manager. resource boxes for nurseries and School Crossing Patrol Manager schools to borrow. These can be 01273 293847 booked by contacting the Child To see if your school is Safety Training Co-ordinator. participating in any of these Child Safety Training initiatives see ‘What’s happening 01273 293704 at my school’ on page 14. 4 How do you travel to school? How do you travel to school? 5 Cycling and Sustrans Bike It Project We are working in partnership Scooting to School with the Public Health Team at Brighton & Hove City Council, to Scooter Training offer the Bike It project. Run by Scooting is a fun and safe way to Sustrans, a national charity, Bike get to school as long as children It aims to get more young people are aware of a few basic road cycling to school and for other safety rules. The Road Safety Team journeys. Sustrans has a Bike It has been running scooter training Officer who works intensively in the city since September 2010, with a number of schools across for Year 2 children aged 6 - 7. The the city to promote cycling, training not only increases skills using a range of initiatives to but also improves confidence, engage with children and their and awareness of other pavement families. In the last few years, users. We also offer training & schools have been running Bikeability Cycle Training activities including: Learn to Bikeability, a national on-road cycle resources to early years teachers, ride days, Dayglo day!, Clean training scheme, is offered to all so they can carry out scooter & Fix your bike sessions, cycle schools with children aged 9 - 14. training within their pre-school training, Bling your bike, We also offer holiday courses. setting themselves. mapping the Downs, transition All Bikeability training is free of All training is free of charge. rides, mountain biking, charge. All trainers undertake an mechanic workshops, bike clubs and enhanced Disclosure & Barring School Travel 01273 291744 attendance initiatives. Service (DBS) check (previously known as a Criminal Record Bike It Officer 07824 813556 Bureau [CRB] check), a Child [email protected] Protection check, and will Cycle & Scooter Storage have successfully completed in Schools For further information see: Bikeability training to the Since 2008, many schools across www.sustrans.org.uk S the city have benefited from new or national standard. To see if your school is c improved cycle and scooter parking participating in any of o Bikeability Manager facilities as a result of the council’s o y 01273 293847 these initiatives see t t successful funding bids ‘What’s happening at my school’ abili to the Department for Transport. on page 14. School Travel 01273 292357 6 How do you travel to school? How do you travel to schoo?l 7 Driving to School Parking Enforcement schools from 8am – 6pm Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) Monday – Friday, except August. If you stop or park on the activity for you and patrol areas where illegal and If you need to drive your markings during these your children. It dangerous parking is a potential child to school threat to child safety.