Environmentally Challenged currently offer 3 levels of Road Safety and Travel Training to school leavers and young adults (aged 14+) with disabilities, learning difficulties and/or Special Educational Needs

1. Dan Thistlewood, BSc.
Road Safety | Travel Training | Functional Skills Tuition
Email - dan@environmentallychallenged.org

2. Why Travel Training?
• Travel Training helps people travel safely, confidently and
independently
• All courses are presented on a one to one basis and tailored
to each client’s individual requirements
• Regular intensive training allows clients to develop their skills in
a controlled, structured and progressive manner
• Skills developed on the course can be used to satisfy the
requirements of various National Curriculum subjects
• Provides clients with the support they need in order to fully
participate in all that society has to offer

3. 3 Levels of Travel Training
• Road Safety (Foundation)
• Single Journey (Intermediate)
• System Wide (Advanced)

4. Road Safety
(Foundation)

5. Road Safety (Foundation)
Main Objectives
• Learning when, where and how to cross the road in the
safest way possible, using islands, zebra, pelican and
puffin crossings when available
• Personal Safety – identifying and responding
appropriately to dangers / hazards, stranger danger,
security of belongings…
• Remember one or more routes
• Communicate needs when and where appropriate

6. Road Safety - continued
• Remember home address and at least one emergency
contact number
• Consider options, make decisions and act upon them
• Use assistive technology effectively
• Seek and accept help from an appropriate source when
necessary
• Understand the need for socially acceptable behaviour

7. Single Journey
(Intermediate)

8. Single Journey (Intermediate)
Main Objectives
• Know how and where to top up an Oyster Card
• Have sufficient money handling skills to make a payment
• Remember the route to the bus stop / train station / underground
• Make payment for the journey with an Oyster Card, Zip Card or
Freedom Pass
• Recognise the correct bus / train / tube and board appropriately
• Find an appropriate place to sit / stand

9. Single Journey - continued
• Recognise where they need to get off the bus / train /
tube and signal the driver appropriately
• Make the correct interchange, if necessary
• Successfully arrive at the destination
• Know what to do if they are running late / miss the bus /
miss their stop / get lost etc.
• Know who to contact in an emergency
• Have a mobile telephone and know how to make a call

10. System Wide
(Advanced)

11. System Wide (Advanced)
• Find the address of the destination using a telephone, the internet, or
other means
• Confidently and effectively use the TFL Journey Planner either on a
computer or mobile telephone
• Decide the best way to get to the destination
• Use a map / navigation app to help navigating the streets
• Always cross the road safely, using designated crossing points if
available
• Find the correct bus stop / station
• Recognise the correct bus / train / tube and board appropriately

12. System Wide - continued
• Recognise where they need to get off the bus / train / tube and
signal the driver appropriately
• Successfully complete interchanges – following signs or asking
appropriate people for directions / assistance if necessary
• Competently use the bus, tube, train, DLR, taxi, river services and
cable car where necessary
• Safely complete the journey
• Know what to do and where to seek help if and when a journey
doesn’t go according to plan
• Know what to do and who to contact in an emergency

13. All courses include:
• Referral – Gathering all relevant information prior to
travel training
• Initial Assessment – to decide the appropriate level of
travel training required
• Action Plan – setting achievable goals and agreeing the
route(s) to be practiced
• Risk Assessment – completed prior to the start of travel
training to examine any factors that might impact on the
journey or the client – updated as necessary

14. All courses include:
• Personalised Travel Training – tailored to each
individual’s needs and structured in such a way as to
allow quick and easy progression
• Travel Journal – Client led review of each journey,
creating an online log of newly acquired skills
• Progress Reports – Regular communication with referee
to monitor progress
• Final Assessment – In order to successfully complete the
program the trainee will need to acquire all skills and
concepts listed on the Action Plan and be able to
demonstrate safe working proficiency in each area

15. Curriculum Links
Skills developed throughout Travel
Training can be evidenced and used to
meet National Curriculum targets in
various subjects including:
• Personal and Social Development
• Functional Maths
• Functional English
• Communication