Have a good look at Ding Ding. Its designed for children but they do come in all ages and you can enjoy designing a bus or a strange parent or even learn some travel skills. http://www.dingding.org.uk

Travel Training - Good Practice Guidance is a bang-up-to-date survey of six travel training projects in the UK with a distillation of the good practice they use. Get a download from http://afse.org.uk/news/travel_training.pdf or it may be easier to ring GMPTE (That's Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive) on 0161 242 6000.

GMPTE's website deals with a lot of issues around disability and access. http://www.gmpte.com

Centro, the PTE for the West Midlands, will soon be issuing literature and information to encourage travel training. Their site is at http://www.centro.org.uk

The Bradford Travel Training Unit, based at Bradford College have 4 years experience doing that thing and would make an excellent blueprint for any FE colleges thinking of developing a travel training initiative. They have an individual training approach and cater for a 14-64 age range http://www.traveltraining.originationinsite.com or contact Chris Walters at c.walters@bradfordcollege.ac.uk

For those of you interested in training travel trainers, I've found some work by Western Michigan University on travel training for people with disabilities in the US. They distinguish between travel trainers and travel instructors. If there's nothing currently available over here, this paper may be a good starting point.www.wmich.edu/hhs/blrh/travel/intro.htm

Another American site on the theme of disability and travel may provoke cries of "why don't we have one like this?" (Or perhaps we do! Let us know.) http://projectaction.easterseals.com  I don't know the significance of 'Easterseals'.

www.tandtwo.co.uk/content.html - Now known as New Horizons Parnership. They have developed a Training for Trainers course and an Independent Travel Training programme, both fully accredited by the National Open College Network.

Margaret Whalley is interested to hear your views on the creation of an accredited qualification for travel training and your experiences as a travel trainer. You can contact her through her website at www.learninglinks.org.uk

http://chris.leech@northern rail.org  Chris Leech is Norhern Rail's School Liaison Manager and does excellent work with school and student parties in the company's area.

http://www.teachingzone.org has links to rail companies that have teaching officers who can help with all the mysteries surrounding train travel

Virgin Trains have a Schools Liaison Officer. Contact David McManus who is also one of their train drivers - 07917 694048 or david.r.mcmanus@btinternet.com . Dave comes highly recommended particularly for teenagers who use the railways. His series of real life experiences teach respect for rail safety.

http://www.teachingzone.org/northern/worksheets.htm will get you a selection of worksheets produced by Northern Rail in conjunction with Coolmove. We obviously recommend these!

http://www.radar.org.uk This website is a one-stop shop for links to most national disability organisations and acts as a network and pressure group to push the disabilities agenda forward.

For details about the Halton Borough training pack contact Jacqui Dunbavin jacqui.dunbavin@halton.gov.uk  or 0151 471 7600 or Rutland House,Halton Lea, Runcorn,Cheshire WA7 2GW

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