Road safety professionals have been left dealing with significant fallout from ministerial announcements and the emergency budget which took place in May 2010. Even though cuts were made to allow for the greatest flexibility in local areas there was little discussion with local government on how to provide continued funding for road safety activity. Significant cuts in local road safety budgets, resources and staffing have been the result.National frameworks which provide local areas with the ability to share information, intelligence and materials will be provided. Great Britain's road safety success has been built upon local action, with the support of national targets. There is no reason why the good aspects of past working cannot be repeated beyond 2010. The setting of a casualty reduction target in 1987 and again in 2000 has provided a common goal at which to aim and a benchmark against which progress could be measured. If central government does not set a national strategy, developing new working relationships between national and local government, and continuing research activity in areas such as the in-depth accident study, it is suggested that Britain's leading international reputation for road safety performance will be under threat. This first report analyses the impact of emergency budgets for 2010/2011 on the road safety sector and makes recommendations which encourage best use of road safety funding within the context of budget cuts expected following the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) in October 2010 (Author/publisher) To download a copy of the report, see http://www.roadsafetygb.org.uk/misc/fckeditorFiles/file/Tackling%20the%…
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