Road safety

We provide visits to schools, lesson plans and more. For more information, contact us.

There are lesson plans and worksheets on a variety of curriculum subjects at both primary and secondary level available to all teachers.

See Department for Transport – Think! Road Safety for educational resources up to a secondary level.

Also, see educational resources:

• TfL – Road Safety Club for an activity guide for early years students
• Brake – Beep Beep! Days for road safety activities at a primary level
• returning to school presentation (PDF 3mb) 
• THINK! tales of the road – a highway code for young road users (PDF 6mb)
• Cycle Confident’s activities for children
• Brake to learn about zebra crossings

The JRSO scheme is a nationally recognised method of increasing road safety awareness within primary schools.

Schools in Hackney choose 2 pupils from year 5 to focus on road safety issues. They encourage safer travel behaviour among their peers, parents and school staff. They also help to organise safer travel activities and campaigns at the school.

We train each junior road safety officer and provide free resources to help support their work. Our road safety officers also assist the JRSOs and their school coordinator when requested.

It’s flexible and you can design it around the priorities of your school. It also contributes towards the TfL STARS accreditation and Healthy Schools initiatives.

For more information, email max.moorcock@hackney.gov.uk or call 020 8356 1358.

We provide school crossing patrol sites and people to operate them, but as a parent you’re responsible for making sure your children get to school safely.

See road safety guide for parents (google slide)

If you’re crossing with your child at a patrol site:

• wait at the kerb
• don’t follow the officer out into the road
• only walk across when the officer tells you
• always walk in front of the officer, not behind
• don’t cycle or use a scooter while crossing – walk

Contact 020 8356 8364 for more information about school crossing patrols or to have a site assessed.

If you’re approaching a school crossing patrol site:

• you must slow down and be prepared to stop at the patrol’s signal
• be patient and ensure the patrol and all pedestrians have stepped off the road before moving – a child’s life could be at stake
• understand that by law patrols can assist adults as well as children
• recognise that it is an offence not to stop when requested to do so with a fine of £1,000 and / or 3 points on your licence

Email road.safety@hackney.gov.uk for school crossing patrols or to have a site assessed.

The Highway Code says, “you must not wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings.”

You can get a fine of up to £130 for parking on ‘keep clear’ marking outside schools during the signed operating hours.

We work with the schools, JRSOs, local police and our parking attendants to encourage motorists not to drop off or pick up children outside schools on the markings.

Our school crossing patrol officers (SCPOs) help children cross the road safely. They operate in places where it’s difficult to cross the road on the way to and from school. This could be anywhere that is a direct route to a school. It doesn’t have to be outside a school.

We have to follow strict national criteria for the safety of school crossing patrol operators and the members of the public using the site. We consider the number of pupils crossing, the size and speed of traffic and any special characteristics the site might have.

For more information about school crossing patrols, or having a site assessed, contact 020 8356 7070.

TfL have launched a new suite of initiatives which are an enhanced package of measures to improve the quality and extent of training that riders receive. 

They were created because motorcyclists are the most vulnerable road users in London. Motorcyclists make up 26 percent of people killed and seriously injured but only two percent of vehicle kilometres travelled on roads. 

TfL offers a range of schemes to meet as diverse a range of rider needs as possible and to enable riders to complete a number of additional training courses.

There are four different target audiences the initiatives focus on:

• new riders, particularly aged 16 to 25, excluding delivery riders
• delivery riders
• riders who travel to work or education using a low powered motorcycle (≤125cc)
• experienced riders of higher powered motorcycles (>500cc)

See TfL’s motorcycling in London.

To ride your scooter or motorcycle you usually must make sure you have a valid CBT certificate. 

See GOV.UK – CBT motorcycle and moped training.

You can be fined up to £1,000 and get up to 6 penalty points for riding if you do not have a valid CBT certificate.

See Accredited training school for CBT and post-test training.

Motorcycles have permanent access to bus lanes on the majority of London’s red routes.

See Transport for London – red routes for more information.

• 2 Wheels London. 
• ROSPA – road safety motorcyclists