Cycle training standard and guidelines published
The new national standard and guidelines for child cyclist training have been published and can be read on this website.

The document comprises two sections. The first sets out a national standard, which details the skills expected of children who have completed a training course. The second section sets out guidelines on current good and best practice in delivering training to achieve the standard. These guidelines are based on existing research and practice in training children to cycle.

This document complements and develops both Adult Cycle Training, A Guide for Organisers and Instructors (CTC, May 2003) and Guidelines for the Management and Operation of Practical Cyclist Training Schemes (RoSPA June 2000).

While the primary purpose of the guidelines is to ensure that all children have the opportunity, through the provision of appropriate training, to improve as safe cyclists, the complementary aim is to promote cycling. The need to expand training provision is one element of a broader strategy to increase cycling and the wide range of benefits - such as to health - this will deliver. The guidelines therefore give advice on how training providers and their instructors can be ambassadors for cycling.

There is a growing recognition that good training not only improves the relative safety of young cyclists but also increases the amount that they cycle. Evidence from local authorities shows significant increases in the number of children cycling to school where training has been integrated with a full range of cycle promotion activities and infrastructure improvements.

The new standard and guidelines are located in the members section of this website. The members section is passowrd protected. To obtain the password please contact LARSOA secretary Brian Hogarth, brian.hogarth@tiscali.co.uk.