Een sterkere positie voor verkeer in het onderwijs : een voorstel voor de ondersteuning aan basisscholen voor het geven van verkeerseducatie. In opdracht van het Directoraat-Generaal Rijkswaterstaat, Adviesdienst Verkeer en Vervoer AVV.

This report discusses how support to schools for teaching traffic education should be organised, in the Netherlands. The question relates specifically to primary education. The greatest deficiency is that schools lack practical exercises for children in traffic. A number of schools receive support in using teaching methods and other aids, within the municipal road safety policy framework. It has been shown that the availability of support represents an important stimulus for schools to become more active in the traffic education field. The decentralisation of educational policy offers action points to lend new impetus to traffic education. The support to schools can be realised in the first place through the Education Support Services (OBDs). Parents, the municipality, the police, and the school, each bear a responsibility for the road safety of children. Therefore, it is necessary that they share the tasks and work together. In addition, traffic education should be adapted to suit the infrastructural measures used to promote road safety. The cooperation between local, regional and central government concerning the conditions and facilities for traffic education is also dealt with. It is concluded that agreements should be made between the parties involved in order to organise support to schools for teaching traffic education.