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The following task looks at the procedure that would need to be put in place if transporting children away from the children’s services venue.

1) List the relevant information available from these sites.
• Excursion Planning
• Ensure all vehicles have child restraints and/or seatbelts according to child’s age and size.
• Talking traffic to kids and talk about how to keep safe.
• Key messages for children and adults.
• Use of well known rhymes and songs to teach children about road safety.
• Never leave young children alone in cars.
• Driveway safety.
• Road traffic environment.
• Use of helmets.

What is the question?

Due to cost of insurance and the risks involved in taking children outside of the service many children's services no longer take children on excursion.
The following task looks at the procedures that would need to be put in place if transporting children away from the children's services venue.
Question is check the websites given kidssafensw.org and kidsandtraffic.mq.edu.au , and List the relevant information available from these sites??

1) List the relevant information available from these sites.
• Excursion Planning
• Ensure all vehicles have child restraints and/or seatbelts according to child’s age and size.
• Talking traffic to kids and talk about how to keep safe.
• Key messages for children and adults.
• Use of well known rhymes and songs to teach children about road safety.
• Never leave young children alone in cars.
• Driveway safety.
• Road traffic environment.
• Use of helmets.

So find all the info from the sites about the above points and then just write them down

eg - driveway safety - read http://www.kidsafensw.org/roadsafety/dr ... safety.htm and then write down the imp info from there

Remember do not copy paste the page, write it in your own words

need to provide examples of legal reqirements when transporting childre. so far i have written approval by parents , supervision ratio of children am i on the right track