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Hi Ross, it might be worth you having a chat to the team at Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service who have delivered multiple parent/guardian information sessions on this subject. If you don’t have their contact details, please do send me an email at elizabeth.box@racfoundation.org and I can make some relevant introductions. As you have alighted on, parental/guardian involvement to support young driver safety is crucial, but it is also challenging to secure adequate engagement levels. You might be interested to take a look at this Open Access academic review of parental interventions, which highlight components that are most likely to achieve success https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483193/. You may also like to make use of the DriveFit film https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/drivefit/ to highlight some of the key areas where it is important to secure parental support (i.e., learning to drive – hours of practice and hazard prediction training, vehicle and insurance choices, post-test protections in the early months of solo licensure – limiting the number of peer passengers and avoiding late night driving). All the best for developing your provision.
