The National Fire Chiefs' Council (NFCC) has created a Young Road User Education Toolkit hosted on Staywise and available for free to blue light users and road safety practitioners.

The toolkit is a collection of road safety education interventions designed by organisations around the country aimed at 16-24 year olds. Interventions in the toolkit are carefully assessed by an expert panel to ensure that what is contained within the toolkit represents best practice, is created using evidence led design and is academically evaluated. The toolkit makes available these resources free of charge and offers a variety of interventions to suit differing organisations’ resources and needs.

This collaborative initiative forms an important move forward for a sector approach to young road user education, where practitioners can offer support to each other and share resources to enable consistent, evidence based, fit for purpose interventions across the country. The vision is that together, using safe systems and best practice, serious and fatal collisions amongst 16-24 year olds on our roads can be reduced to zero.

Annabelle Priest, Road Safety Officer, Devon and Somerset Fire Rescue Service

Annabelle Priest works for the road safety team at Devon and Somerset Fire Rescue Service. She co-ordinates the Learn2Live partnership which consists of multiple organisations, including 999 services and local councils. Learn2Live runs road safety education events for 16-18 year olds in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall and are an active part of Vision Zero South West.

Annabelle represents Devon and Somerset Fire Rescue Service as the NFCC Young Driver Thematic Lead, and in this capacity has created the NFCC Young Road User Education Toolkit.