Intensive School Engagement (Cycling & Scooting) Service

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Plymouth City Council ("The Council") has successfully secured funding allowing the continued delivery of Plymotion the Council’s successful behavioural change programme. The focus of Plymotion is on workplaces, schools, and new developments in key growth areas of the city. Through Plymotion we will support businesses, schools and residents in new developments to walk, cycle and use the bus for regular journeys they make. Through the Intensive School Engagement Service (Cycling and Scooting) Service, Plymotion will fund engagement with a minimum of 60 schools within Plymouth and its urban fringe. This will allow the programme to engage with an anticipated 12,235 pupils who will benefit from improved safety and physical access to education and better concentration levels in school. Furthermore, when they leave school, they will be better equipped to access jobs and training actively and affordably. Lot 1: The overall aim of the service is to increase the number of young people travelling to school actively and/or sustainably with a particular focus on areas that have seen infrastructure improvements and with a particular focus on the strategic growth areas, and areas with high health inequalities. With Specific Aims as follows: • To reduce the number of young people travelling to school by car – with a shift to active travel modes or use of public transport. • For schools that have been previously engaged as a minimum the target is to achieve levels of cycling, scooting and walking that were achieved by the previous schools engagement programme • For schools that have not previously been engaged: doubling of cycling and scooting on pre-engagement levels reflecting a reduction in journeys to school by car with no significant reduction in levels of walking. • To raise awareness of the benefits of active travel in schools and the wider school community of parents and teachers. To create a culture of active travel within project schools and the wider school community of parents and teachers that can be sustained once the project has ended • Work in partnership with the City’s Bikeability provider, in order to maximise the benefits of all programmes. • Maximise awareness of, and participation in, activities associated with the wider Plymotion programme amongst school children and the wider school community of parents and teachers.