Young driver interventions in Tayside

1 Large interventions 1 Medium interventions 6 Small interventions

Definitions

Small Intervention
Small interventions are targeted at young people within the wider community. These interventions are primarily outside the school timetable and delivered off-site by community safety partners and members of the third sector.
Medium Intervention
Medium interventions are targeted at individual students class groups and young people within the wider community. These interventions are primarily within the school timetable and delivered on-site by community safety partners.
Large Intervention
Large interventions are targeted at whole student year groups and are often open to members of the general public.

NB: Small, medium, or large icons do not reflect scale or impact of event.

Attendance represents figures for 2008-2009.

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Tayside

Small Interventions

Road Safety Input (Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme)

This an annual intervention is targeted at young people between the ages of 17 and 25 in Angus, Dundee and, Perth and Kinross. It offers 6-12 young people 2-3 hours of road safety input as part of an adapted version of Tayside’s Young Fire Fighters Programme. The programmes takes place over six weeks and explores road safety issues using audio-visual material and input from Fire and Rescue practitioners. The programme also includes a practical element in which participants investigate a road safety collusion and its aftermath. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisations: Tayside Fire and Rescue, Dundee Open Award Unit

Attendance

This information is currently unavailable.

Road Safety Input (Young Firefighters Programme)

This annual intervention is targeted young people between the ages of 11 and 17 in Angus, Dundee and, Perth and Kinross. Participants are offered road safety input as part of the Young Fire Fighters Programme. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisation: Tayside Fire and Rescue

Attendance

This information is currently unavailable.

Pass Plus

This is an on-road intervention targeted at young newly qualified drivers in Perth and Kinross. The six-session DSA programme offers practical situational instruction covering driving on motorways and dual carriageways, in and out of town driving, and driving at night and in different weather conditions. A 50 per cent subsidy is awarded to residents who complete the programme. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisation: Perth and Kinross Council, Partner Organisations: Driving Standards Agency (DSA), Approved Driving Instructors (ADIs)

Attendance

This information is currently unavailable.

Hub Motorcycle Project

This is a referral-led intervention is targeted at young people in Dundee identified by Youth Justice. The 7-hour intervention explores a motorcycle collision and its aftermath. First Aid training is also offered. The programme is subject to demand. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisations: Tayside Fire and Rescue, Hub Library & Learning Centre

Attendance

This information is currently unavailable.

Momentum

This is a referral-led intervention targeted at young people who have been brought to the attention of local of authorities in Angus. The intervention takes places subject to funding and current needs. Participants take part in a 30-hour programme exploring issues such as basic car maintenance, attitudes and behaviour, the highway code, traffic laws, and hazard perception as well as the effects of drink and drugs, peer pressure and the driving experience. Participants also receive practical driving instruction. An internal evaluation was conducted in 2008.

Lead Organisation: Angus Local Multi Agency Resource Teams (LMARTs); Partner Organisations: Angus Council, Tayside Police, Tayside Fire and Rescue, NHS Tayside, Volunteer Centre Angus, Brechin Auto Repairs, Approved Driving Instructors (ADIs)

Attendance

The programme did not take place in 2008-2009.

MotoLearn

This is a rolling intervention, targeted at selected S4 and S5 students in Perth and Kinross, who are interested in motorcycling. The programme comprises of six full day sessions which take place in the school and at off-site locations. With the aid of the learning resource, Crash Magnets, and additional input from RUTS staff, participants explore issues such as basic motorcycle maintenance and motor care, attitudes and behaviour towards motorcycling, personal responsibility, hazard perception, the Highway Code, the driving test, and motor insurance as well as the effects of speed and drink and drugs. Participants also receive off-road motorcycle instruction. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisation: Rural and Urban Training Scheme (RUTS)

Attendance

2 out of 14 secondary schools.

Medium Interventions

Driving Ambition

This is an annual intervention, taking place in schools, targeted at S6 students in Angus and, Perth and Kinross. In Angus a formal road safety presentation and a number of small workshops are delivered by community safety practitioners, while in Perth and Kinross the intervention takes the form of an information fayre. The full or half-day interventions cover issues such as car maintenance, drug and drink driving, brake reaction times, hazard perception, the driving test, the driving licence, car insurance, static control lessons, road sign knowledge and the role of speed cameras. Driving simulation is also offered. Information about the evaluation process is currently unavailable.

Lead Organisation: Tayside Fire and Rescue; Partner Organisations: Tayside Police, Driving Standards Agency (DSA), Angus Council, Perth & Kinross Council, Tayside Safety Camera Partnership, Tayside Fire and Rescue, (Perth and Kinross Driving Instructors Association, Careers Scotland, Skillseekers Perth & Kinross only)

Attendance

All secondary schools in Angus and, Perth and Kinross.

Large Interventions

Safe Drive Stay Alive

This an annual intervention targeted at S5, S6 and further education students. Half-day events take place at three locations, the Reid Hall in Forfar, the Whitehall Theatre in Dundee and Bell Sports Centre in Perth, over two months and centre round a docudrama of a fatal local road traffic collision. Lighting and music is used as a prelude to the intervention in order to stimulate participants prior to the presentation. The docudrama is supported by emotive experience and testimonies from the community safety practitioners, victims and parents of victims. The event is also supported with a series of thematic road safety TV commercials developed by Northern Ireland Department of Environment. An external evaluation was conducted in 2007.

Lead Organisation: Tayside Fire and Rescue; Partner Organisations: Angus Council, Dundee City Council, Perth and Kinross Council, Angus Community Safety Partnership, Dundee Community Safety Partnership, Perth and Kinross Community Safety Partnership, Tayside Police, Tayside Road Safety Forum, NHS Tayside, Scottish Ambulance, Tayside Safety Camera Partnership

Attendance

29 out 30 secondary schools in Angus, Dundee and, Perth and Kinross, Angus College, Dundee College, Perth College