How it educates children about the benefits of cycling.

The Scottish Government believes that educating young people about the benefits of cycling, and indeed of active travel and physical activity in general, is fundamental to the current and future health and wellbeing of the country. We support various organisations in Scotland to deliver a number of programmes that provide the knowledge and training required to live a safe, healthy and active life. These include:
Road Safety Scotland
Road Safety Scotland's free road safety learning resources, closely linked to Curriculum for Excellence and made available to schools and other educational establishments across the country. This is a lifelong learning approach to road safety for young people aged 3 to 18 years, with a view to developing responsible road use among young people. The learning resources encourage safer road use and good practice across all road user groups, including child cyclists.
Sustrans Scotland
I Bike is a programme working directly with pupils designed to increase rates of cycling and support all modes of active travel to and from schools. Sustrans officers work with teachers and parents, supported by local authority school travel planning initiatives, road safety and active school teams to deliver a tailored programme of curriculum led activities to encourage schools to deliver cycling activities over a three year period. Champions are identified within each school and bike crews made up from pupils who promote the activities to their peers.
The School cycle and scooter parking programme is a match funded grant programme available to local authorities. The programme installs new or improved cycle and scooter parking within school grounds. The new facilities are also subject to local promotion and campaigns so that the whole school community are aware of the benefits.
Sustrans manage the School Travel Professional Network; a forum for local authority officers to share experiences and learn from each other when rolling out school travel campaigns and activities. This also includes developing and rolling out school travel plan templates and other initiatives linked with ‘Healthier Routes’ which support teachers to involve pupils in the development of school travel plans and active travel promotion.
There are a number of free resources to schools to raise awareness about the benefits of cycling including the Big Street Survey; lesson plans and activities designed to encourage children to identify opportunities for cycling and walking infrastructure improvements around their school. The Big Shift is a six week programme designed for teachers to run activities to encourage cycling to and from school and this can culminate in taking part in the annual Big Pedal, a UK wide competition based on participation of pupils logging journeys to and from school, which is supported by curriculum linked resources. For younger pupils, Sustrans Superheroes provides inspiration for children to learn and practice skills essential for safe, fun and sustained active travel.
Cycling Scotland
Cycling Scotland manages the national Bikeability Scotland cycle training programme on behalf of the Scottish Government, funded through Transport Scotland and the Education Department. This programme is delivered across 29 local authority areas, to over 32,000 primary aged pupils. The most recent available data for 2014-15 shows that 40.1% of schools delivered an on-road training programme promoting confidence and skills to make trips by bike. In addition to practical cycle training, the scheme includes teaching resources and classroom packs to embed cycling across the Curriculum for Excellence. Bikeability Scotland aligns with the UK National Standard for Cycling.
The ‘Give Everyone Cycle Space’ is a road safety campaign asking drivers to give people on bikes enough space when passing – as much space as they’d give a car. Again, Transport Scotland is working in partnership with Education colleagues to jointly fund this campaign. Local