Youth Road Safety Forum
There are some amazing organisations in our communities dedicated to helping improve road safety. Many of those organisations first met in late 2021 to discuss their road safety education current practice and how organisations can work together more effectively. Representatives came from SADD/Kaitiaki o Ara, Waka Kotahi (NZTA), New Zealand Police, Road Safety Education Ltd (RSE, RYDA programme) Fire and Emergency NZ and St John, SASTA (Safe and Sustainable Transport Association) and representative for Road Safety coordinators.
All the organisations have staff who visit schools for educational purposes, with road safety a common topic.
The purpose of this group is to work together to network, discuss current road safety education activities being delivered to youth (13-19), and create opportunities to collaborate, design resources and deliver promising practice road safety education to youth. This is a group that leads and takes action to support youth to build their knowledge and experience to become safe and confident road users and to reduce the number of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads.
Key objectives are:
- Organisations in the group are working together to support each other’s mahi to maximise learning outcomes for youth
- Youth have a clear pathway for accessing services and resources to help them learn about road safety to enable them to become safe and confident road users.
- Organisations are delivering promising practice road safety education and are delivering consistent messaging to help achieve Road to Zero goals