How it is educating children about road safety.

The Scottish Executive provides funding to the Scottish Road Safety Campaign to enable it to produce road safety education resources aimed at children of all ages. The campaign is developing and implementing a strategy for road safety education in Scottish schools at all stages of education, from pre-school to upper secondary school, including special educational needs. The main aim is to ensure that there is a core curriculum of road safety taught to all children in Scotland.As part of the Campaign's Theatre in Education programme, a number of plays aimed at different age groups tour schools throughout Scotland each year. The Campaign's website includes an area specifically for 8 to 13 year old children, which is designed to convey road safety messages in a fun way.On 10 September the campaign launched a national Junior Road Safety Officer scheme, in which senior primary school pupils, supported by local authority or police Road Safety Officers, are appointed to raise awareness of road safety issues among other pupils, teachers, parents and the wider community. The Scottish Executive is providing funding, totalling £810,000 over six years, for selected schemes, implemented by local authorities, to train five- and six-year-olds in practical road safety skills. Priority is being given to schemes in disadvantaged areas. The first three successful authorities were announced in January. The second bidding round was launched in June.The Scottish Executive also funds the Children's Traffic Club in Scotland, which offers free road safety education to all three and four year old children in Scotland.