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Hello Welcome to the award winning Lancashire
Road Safety Group. We work in partnership with
many local and national organisations to improve
road safety with the aim of reducing casualties.
Through publicity, education and training, we
help to keep everyone safer on the roads, but we
need you to help us We love sharing almost as
much as we love learning. In recent years we
have shared our best practice and research by
visiting and hosting colleagues from not only the
UK but across Europe. Our aim is to make
Lancashire a safer place to walk, cycle, ride and
drive.
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Publicity We use a variety of ways to promote
road safety around Lancashire. Keep your eyes
peeled for updates on our website, in papers,
magazines and in the leaflets we produce. You
might also spot our events team at various places
around Lancashire. Education We work together
with schools, colleges, pre-school carers, health
visitors and parents to help keep young people
safe on the roads. To make things easier for you
we provide lots of useful educational resources
and training programmes. We also have a dedicated
School Crossing Patrol team who cross our
children daily to and from school in safety.
Training We provide many theory and practical
courses to improve/refresh your skills. We work
with Advanced Driving Instructors who deliver our
courses, and we help local businesses keep
themselves and their employees safe.
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Our People People are our greatest asset. We are
a very dedicated team of people who work together
to make Lancashire a place where people can
travel easily and safely. We rely heavily on
volunteers who kindly dedicate time to deliver
practical pedestrian and cycling training
programmes to school children across the county.
We work with many Approved Driving Instructors
(ADIs) who are trained to the highest standards
to deliver our driver and rider training and
improvement courses. Our School Crossing Patrol
staff are valued members of their school
community and provide a valuable and dedicated
service. Working together we have been
recognised for some great achievements.
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Our achievements We have 6 International Prince
Michael Road Safety Awards 2002 The Big Book
Lets Be Safe When Out and About (Highly
Commended) 2003 The Lancashire Partnership for
Road Safety 2004 Development of the Speed
Awareness Course 2004 Right Start Child
Pedestrian Training Programme (Highly
Commended) 2007 Pre-Pass Support Scheme and
Perfect Partner CD-ROM 2007 Together We Can Make
The Difference Strategy

• We have also achieved
• 2004 Local Transport Authority of the Year and
  Road Safety Authority Award
• Charter Mark Status with thanks to our excellent
  customer service standards
• Investors in People Standard as we have achieved
  many great successes through our people
• Accreditation by the Driving Standards Agency to
  train ADIs to deliver Fleet Training
• AQA Accreditation, enabling us to deliver a
  number of AQA accredited units to our Area
  Co-ordinators and Approved Trainers

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Together we can Make the Difference We believe
that working together is the best way to
work. Many organisations, businesses, community
groups, schools, associations and individuals
across Lancashire have signed up to help make the
difference, all playing their own important part
in raising awareness of and improving road
safety. We work together to help make
Lancashires roads safer but we need you to help
us. Whether you walk, cycle, ride or drive we
can all make some changes to make Lancashires
roads not only nicer places to be on but safer as
well.
Have you signed up?
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• How you can help
• You dont have to make big changes to help us
  Make the Difference. You could start by
  following these small steps to help make a big
  difference on our roads
• Smile at someone and they might pass it on
• Thank everybody who is kind to you
• Give someone a lift
• Leave your car at home and stroll down to the
  local shops
• Let someone out in front of you
• If you get stuck in traffic dont get angry
  because its not going to get you anywhere any
  faster just relax and chill out
• Get up a few minutes earlier in the morning so
  youre not rushing to an important meeting or
  trying to get the children to school

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Your Support To keep everyone updated about road
safety across Lancashire, we produce a Make the
Difference newsletter four times a year. It is
packed with our latest news, top tips about road
safety, interesting features, fun pages and a lot
more. If you would like to pledge your support to
Make The Difference (MTD) and also receive the
MTD newsletter then please let us know. All of
our contact details are on the back cover. Always
rememberworking Together we can Make the
Difference.
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If you would like more information please
contact us Road Safety Group Lancashire County
Council Guild House FREEPOST PR844 Preston PR1
8RD T 0800 328 1635 E roadsafety_at_lancashire.gov
.uk W lancashire.gov.uk/roadsafety