Cllr Liz Childs believes that road safety is a vital part of every child’s education, but teaching it currently seems to be optional. Road traffic collisions can result in devastating consequences, and Liz believes that our education system has a responsibility to protect lives, inform young people about inherent dangers, especially given the distraction of mobile phones.

Liz is petitioning the Department of Education to include road safety awareness as a mandatory part of the National Curriculum.

Cllr Liz Childs, Central Bedfordshire Council

Liz Childs has only been a CBC Councillor since May 2023. She is in fact a professional Musician/Flautist.

However, since being elected and in response to some of the incredible statistics and data that she has seen, and having lost her own brother in a road traffic collision whilst a student, she has developed a passion to make road safety education a much more important issue in schools; she believes that with formally recognised road safety education as part of every child's curriculum, much could change.

Liz believes that road safety affects every single person’s life - from pedestrian to driver, to every other mode of transport and children from a young age need to learn and understand the responsibilities that we all have in society.

With all this in mind, she has launched a Government Petition named: ‘Make Road Traffic Safety a mandatory part of the National Curriculum'