RoSPA Road Safety in Europe and Beyond
Although most of RoSPA’s road safety work takes place in the UK, we are active on the European and Global road safety stages.
European Road Safety Charter
In 2005, RoSPA was one of the first signatories of the European Road Safety Charter. The objective of the Charter is to help reduce road fatalities. Signatories, who are NGO’s (like RoSPA), associations, research institutions, commercial companies and public bodies, undertake to carry out concrete actions and share their good practices in order to resolve the road safety problems that they encounter in their day-to-day environments. The Charter now has more than 1,200 signatories.
RoSPA successfully completed its original three year commitments and has recently renewed its European Road Safety Charter Commitment, which can be viewed here.
European Child Safety Alliance
RoSPA shares the UK seat on the working group of the Alliance with the Child Accident Prevention Trust. The European Child Safety Alliance aims to advance child injury prevention throughout Europe, and to enhance the quality of children's lives through the power of reason, solidarity and compassion. The Alliance has three goals:
- To influence key decision-makers and leaders at the European level to enhance healthy public policies and funding for child injury prevention initiatives
- To stimulate European level injury prevention awareness promotions to increase the profile of child injury prevention
- To organise a European Child Injury Prevention Network to share resources, best practice and develop partnerships in child injury prevention throughout Europe.
Child Safety Action Plans
RoSPA has helped to produce national child safety action plans for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Child Safety Action Plan (CSAP) project is being run by the European Child Safety Alliance. It is a large-scale project to use standardised tools and processes to develop action plans to enhance child safety in 18 countries in the European Union.
RoSPA staff in Scotland and Northern Ireland are working with a variety of partners in those countries to produce plans over the next 18 months.
Further details: Eurosafe
International partnerships
RoSPA maintains strong contacts with, and supports the work of many international road safety organisations, including:
- European Transport Safety Council
- Global Road Safety Partnership
- WHO
- Eurosafe
- Euroncap
- Eurorap
In recent years, RoSPA’s Road Safety Department has provided professional advice, driver and motorcyclist training and tests, instructor training, consultancy and accreditation services in many countries, including:
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- Kuwait
- Tunisia
- India
- Oman
- Spain
- Cyprus
- Egypt
- Portugal
- Greece
- Malaysia
- Ireland
- France
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