Scooting with young children under 5 years old

Are you a parent or carer of a child under 5 who users a scooter?

Scooting is a fun, active and healthy way to get around. 

Many children under 5 years old love scooting, and it can be a great way to cover quite long distances with young children. Scooting also helps them develop basic road safety awareness, as well as skills which are essential for cycling, such as balancing, steering and stopping.

Children love to scoot but are not always aware of basic safety rules. 

We have produced a leaflet to help you and your child with some of the basic safety rules around scooting. Talking to your child about the topics in this leaflet, when out and about, will help them scoot more safely and considerately.

Safe and considerate scooting with children under 5 leaflet (PDF 515KB)

You can also print off some pictures illustrating some of the 'Scooter golden rules' (PDF 7MB). There are 4 colour versions of the 'Scooter golden rules' as well as 4 black and white versions which you child could colour in.

Further information

See here for more information about scooting to school and scooter safety training in schools 

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