Road Safety Partnerships have helped create better road safety outcomes by integrating Education, Engineering and Enforcement and through collaborative working. The recent economic climate was thought to potentially affect the long term viability of partnership working and a study was implemented to consider some aspects of this issue. The aims were to explore the views of practitioners regarding how partnership working has changed since the end of the Road Safety Partnership Grant (RSPG), the barriers and facilitators of partnership working, their sustainability and how they engage with the community as a partner. Telephone interviews were conducted among 19 road safety officers who had been in receipt of the RSPG. The sample was anonymous and confidential and interviews were taped and transcribed. Thematic content analyses was undertaken to derive the key themes. A range of verbatim comments have been used to illustrate themes. (Author/publisher)
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