Education, training and publicity

Kent County Council use education, training and publicity to help promote our road safety messages to all pedestrians in Kent. We regularly create and run campaigns with specific pedestrian road safety messages. See our latest campaigns.

We also visit primary and secondary schools to talk to students about ways to stay safer whilst using the county's roads.

At primary schools, we offer the very popular child pedestrian training scheme, Small Steps. At secondary schools, we respond whenever possible to invitations to speak to specific year groups, whole school events or school councils on road safety and the associated risks to teenagers.

Owing to the success of these schemes, we are currently developing a modular young pedestrian course, specifically for transition stage children at this particularly vulnerable time, as they move from primary to secondary school.

Another valuable tool we use is Theatre in education. Various performances have been widely acclaimed in many Kent schools.