When we stop to imagine how children and young people can be assisted in realising the Every Child Matters outcomes, it becomes clear just how crucial transport is to being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic wellbeing.
And yet children and young people still face many barriers to travel, including high and inconsistent costs, safety fears, poor travel information and inappropriate scheduling. These can lead to poor access - not only to positive leisure, sporting and cultural activities, but to crucial education, training and employment opportunities. Poor public transport increases children's dependence on car travel, increasing their risk of road traffic accidents and reducing their independence and likelihood of using more environmentally sustainable modes of transport throughout life.
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