A Greater London Branch Presentation
Date: 26 October 2011 ( Evening Presentation 6.00 for 6.30 p.m.)
The Strategic Framework for Road Safety: How Do We Make it Work?
Venue: WSP (70 Chancery Lane London WC2A 1AF)
Nearest Tube: Chancery Lane
Speakers: Kevin Clinton (RoSPA) / Rob Gifford (PACTS)
Chair: Ross Corben
TransPro July 2011 ran an article on the omission of road safety targets from Government policy, which, for some, lacks the direction needed to help local authorities reduce KSI. There are doubts over how the Government's stance on localism will practically satisfy local road safety needs. RoSPA are one of several road safety organisations that were due to meet in June to discuss how they can support local authorities. PACTS called for the road safety profession to take a leadwhere theGovernment does not.
Rob Gifford of PACTS and Kevin Clinton of RoSPA present on how the DfT's Strategic Framework for Road Safety can be made to work in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
Kevin Clinton is the Head of Road Safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). He is responsible for developing, managing and promoting RoSPA’s road safety policies, products and services, including its driver and motorcyclist training courses.
Kevin has represented RoSPA on many DfT Working Groups, including the Road Safety Advisory Panel, the Child Road Safety Sub-Group, Cyclist Training Standards Board and the Motorcycle Test Review, as well as various project working Groups, such as the Road Safety Research and Dissemination Group. Kevin also sits on many other bodies, including the Stakeholder Group of the DSA’s Learning To Ride Programme, PACTS, the BSi, Roadsafe, London Road Safety Council, RSGB’s School Crossing Patrol Service Working Group and the Birmingham Road Safety Partnership. He is Secretary to RoSPA’s National Road Safety Committee.
He has given evidence to several Parliamentary Inquires conducted by Select Committees, including Inquiries into Road Safety, Novice Drivers, Motorcycling, Sentencing Policy, Drink Driving and Mobility Scooters.
Kevin has produced a wide range of road safety education and training resources and good practice guidelines, and is responsible for the road safety section of RoSPA’s website and is RoSPA’s main Road Safety Spokesperson, regularly giving comment and interviews to the media.
Robert Gifford is Executive Director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS). PACTS is a registered charity and associate Parliamentary group advising MPs and Peers on road, rail and air safety issues. Its charitable objective is "To protect human life through the promotion of transport safety for the public benefit". Its areas of activity comprise air, rail and road safety matters.
He has held this post since May 1994. As part of his work, he is a member of the National Driver Offenders Retraining Group board and of the ORR Rail Industry Advisory Committee. For a number of years he was a special adviser to the Transport Select Committee of the House of Commons and a member of the RSSB Safety Advisory Committee.
He is a regular lecturer on the transport safety conference circuit and a contributor to the media.
Prior to PACTS, he taught English for 13 years and spent six years as a policy officer with the National Union of Teachers. Between 1987 and 1995, he was a councillor on Milton Keynes Borough Council, including three years as Leader. He is still active in local politics, serving currently as chair of Stony Stratford Town Council, a position he has held since May 2001.
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