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Paper Title:
RoadWise Safe Routes
to School Accreditation Scheme
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Authors:
C Parker, Julie Parsons
Abstract:
This paper investigates
the methods and motives required to ensure ongoing community involvement
and implementation of the WA Safe Routes to School program. The
presentation will focus on ways to encourage schools to implement
road safety school based programs offered by other WA stakeholders,
and to provide incentives to school communities to generate their
own road safety initiatives to address localised road safety issues.
Consultation was undertaken
with primary schools in the Perth Metropolitan area, rural and remote
areas of Western Australian Local Governments, key stakeholders
in road safety in WA, review and other Australian states regarding
their SRS programs. The research and development has resulted in
the RoadWise SRS Accreditation Scheme that rewards schools for their
increased involvement in the promotion and comprehensive and co-ordinated
approach to road safety following their adoption and implementation
of the primary Safe Routes to Schools program objectives.
The introduction of the
SRS Accreditation Scheme has resulted in:
-Interest in the SRS program from Schools that previously had not
been involved
-Increased Road Safety activity/programs in schools on a regular
and ongoing basis
-Development of new road safety ideas by schools for schools
Limitations of the study
include that the program could only be offered to schools that had
completed the actions outlined in the primary SRS school program.
The SRS Accreditation was only awarded to schools in 2001 in the
metropolitan area, leaving the issue of SRS including the relevance
of the Accreditation Scheme for rural and remote areas to be further
researched and discussed.
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