FOI/202300384754 · FOI/EIR · unclear
Road Safety Scotland (RSS) resources in local authorities: EIR release
Information requested
Information on the uptake of RSS resources in Local Authorities with and without Road Safety Officers.
Response
As you know, Road Safety Scotland (RSS) continues to be funded to maintain and develop learning resources for 3-18 year-olds and, as such, is currently working with a digital agency to audit several of its road safety learning resources, with the intention of replacing or refreshing them. Each project will involve the help and guidance from education professionals, road safety contacts, Road Safety Officers (RSOs), pupils and teachers to ensure the resources developed are fit-for-purpose, linked to Curriculum for Excellence, and engaging in order to meet the needs of today’s pupils. RSS continues to promote its learning resources through various channels, including road safety contacts, PR marketing agencies, Education Scotland, educational journals and attendance at education conferences.
To your point about the uptake of RSS resources in local authorities with and without RSOs. As you know, RSOs are not present in all local authority areas. However, RSS holds and maintains a list of road safety contacts in each local authority area. Although not all contacts are designated solely to road safety education, training and publicity, RSS does encourage them to actively promote the RSS resources in their respective areas.
As all RSS resources are now accessible online, RSS recently carried out an audit of all its online learning resources, and the breakdown for each resource, covering the period July 2022-July 2023 is below.
ROAD SAFETY LEARNING RESOURCE CfE LEVEL NUMBER OF VIEWS Ziggy and Roadstars Early 48,198 Roadstars First 27,781 Roadstars Second 38,925 JRSO Second 61,686 Your Call Third and Fourth 38,866 Crash Magnets Senior Phase 9,073 A2bsafely Additional Support Needs 1,278
A further breakdown by local authority area shows the total number of users who had accessed the road safety learning resources over the same period:
LOCAL AUTHORITY TOTAL NUMBER OF USERS Aberdeen 347 Aberdeenshire 250 Angus 262 Argyll & Bute 0 City of Edinburgh 1166 Clackmannanshire 0 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 0 Dumfries & Galloway 203 Dundee 110 East Ayrshire 160 East Dunbartonshire 158 East Lothian 0 East Renfrewshire 0 Falkirk 57 Fife 212 Glasgow 1987 Inverclyde 79 Midlothian 0 North Ayrshire 117 North Lanarkshire 446 Orkney Islands 0 Perth & Kinross 307 Renfrewshire 308 Scottish Borders 37 Shetland Islands 0 South Ayrshire 44 South Lanarkshire 501 Stirling 117 The Highland 536 The Moray 230 West Dunbartonshire 231 West Lothian 250
You will be very aware of the Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) scheme, which remains very popular throughout the country. The statistics below have been taken from an exercise undertaken by RSS earlier this year, in which local road safety contacts were asked to confirm numbers of JRSO schools in their local areas. Although the JRSO scheme operates across all local authorities in Scotland, unfortunately, not all road safety contacts returned this information. However, you can see from the data below, most local authority areas are accessing the JRSO site. For those JRSO schools who do not have a local RSO, schools can still access the material through the JRSO website or request information and collateral by contacting RSS direct. You may wish to note, work is currently underway to review the JRSO website to ensure the content is relevant to support the JRSO scheme, and to move its content across to the RSS website.
LOCAL AUTHORITY NUMBER OF JRSO SCHOOLS TOTAL NUMBER OF USERS TO JRSO SITE BETWEEN 07/2022 TO 07/2023 Aberdeen 0 991 Aberdeenshire 90 585 Angus 0 506 Argyll & Bute 0 0 City of Edinburgh 63 4320 Clackmannanshire 0 110 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 0 106 Dumfries & Galloway 56 469 Dundee City 0 464 East Ayrshire 25 399 East Dunbartonshire 1 298 East Lothian 39 167 East Renfrewshire 0 0 Falkirk 0 289 Fife 37 999 Glasgow 103 4496 Inverclyde 8 284 Midlothian 31 0 North Ayrshire 40 315 North Lanarkshire 0 877 Orkney Islands 6 71 Perth & Kinross 0 833 Renfrewshire 12 760 Scottish Borders 62 62 Shetland 19 0 South Ayrshire 26 239 South Lanarkshire 0 1604 Stirling 0 154 Highland 102 1116 The Moray 0 416 West Dunbartonshire 32 384 West Lothian 67 662
Please find the link here Reported Road Casualties Scotland 2022 | Transport Scotland, where you will also be able to view information by Police Force and local authority area. Tables 36-42 provide casualties by local authority area.
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