SCHOOL CYCLE TRAINING PLACES THROUGH THE BIKEABILITY PROGRAMME

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This article outlines progress so far of the Bikeability project — a cycling proficiency programme designed to provide the next generation with the skills and confidence required to cycle on today’s busy roads.

For the financial year 2011/12, £11mn has been earmarked to provide 275,000 cycle training places to school children aged 10–11. Norman Baker, Transport Minister, stated on 19 October 2011 that £2,083,976 had been allocated to 206 schools across England, funding over 50,000 Bikeability training places.

Bikeability has received the support of more than 20 professional organisations, among them the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, as well as various cross-government departments, for example the Department for Transport, Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health.

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