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The Early Childhood Road Safety Education Program, also known as Kids and Traffic, is a partnership between the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority and Macquarie University’s Institute for Early Childhood Education.

Originators of the highly successful ‘Click-clack, front and back’ slogan, the program provides useful information on all aspects of child road safety for both families and children’s services. It forms part of the Institute for Early Childhood Education’s highly successful community outreach program (visit http://www.aces.mq.edu.au/iec_co.asp )

Aims

The Kids and Traffic program aims to achieve improvements in young children's safety in the short term and develop safe community attitudes to road use in the long term by:

  • increasing awareness of the need for road safety education for children and their families
  • fostering developmentally appropriate practices for the delivery of road safety education with children's services staff and tertiary early childhood students
  • ensuring that young children are given consistent road safety messages by both early childhood staff and families.

Website

There is an excellent Kids and Traffic website <http://www.kidsandtraffic.mq.edu.au/index.html> full of useful information and resources for families and children’s services providers.

The site includes

  • information about workshops delivered for children’s services providers and families
  • resources available free of charge for children’s services organisations, as well as resources available for general purchase
  • fact sheets on road safety issues such as car travelling tips, helmets, safety doors, and not leaving children alone in cars
  • useful information for families on important safety aspects such as driving safely with young children, driveway safety, and walking safely with young children
  • tertiary outreach opportunities – details of road safety lectures and seminars delivered to undergraduate students in universities, TAFE colleges and other accredited training providers which offer early childhood programs.

For more information visit http://www.kidsandtraffic.mq.edu.au/index.html or contact kidsandtraffic@mq.edu.au

 

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