National targets for road safety ‘aim to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in Great Britain in road accidents by 40% and the number of children killed or seriously injured by 50% by 2010, compared with the average for 1994–98, tackling the significantly higher incidence in disadvantaged communities’. In 2002 the Department for Transport set up the Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative in 15 local authorities. A central team with a budget of £3.6 million was established to support activity in these authorities. This report deals primarily with the work of the central team. A Project Board and a Steering Group guided the work. The ethos of the central team was to find fresh and innovative ways to reach disadvantaged groups, working with authorities to ensure that road safety activity was linked to strategic priorities and regeneration activity and that appropriate thematic partnerships and working groups assumed responsibility for it. (Author/publisher)
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