Education and training services

Tender description

'Active Travel’ refers to a form of transport that engages the individual in physical activity e.g. walking, cycling and scooting. The Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013, Section 10, states there is a duty on the Welsh Ministers and Local Authorities to ‘exercise functions to promote active travel’. The Welsh Government wishes to engage a supplier to provide active travel promotion and engagement in schools in Wales, to contribute to meeting this duty in the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013. The Welsh Government wishes to engage a supplier to provide active travel promotion and engagement in schools in Wales, to contribute to meeting this duty in the Active Travel (Wales) Act 2013. The aim of the contract will be: — to increase the number of children, young people and staff regularly travelling actively to school. The objectives of the contract will be: — to give teachers, parents and governors the tools and skills to promote and support active travel within their school and the wider community, — to raise awareness and enthusiasm among children, young people, staff, parents and governors on the benefits of active travel and safe routes, — to engage children and young people and the wider school community in activities encouraging and enabling uptake of active travel, — to work closely with the school staff and community to develop school champions with specific roles to promote active travel, — to create a whole school culture of active travel within participating schools that can be sustained over time and is reviewed regularly, — to communicate the benefits of active travel and encourage its uptake through a variety of channels to the wider community, — to help facilitate/improve the transition between primary and secondary schools to maintain and encourage active travel habits and behaviours.