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Tom Crispin
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I recently sent an email to Emily Thornberry MP, a normal cyclist who
cycles to and from work in normal clothes and doesn't wear a helmet or
'funny shoes'. She is interested in expanding cycle training in
schools - which is exactly what I am doing. I sent her details of the
consultation I carried out with 120 parents and received over 100
replies. None of the replies were negative about the proposal.
Emily Thornberry didn't respond directly, I didn't expect her to as
there is a convention among MPs that they only respond to their own
constituents, or with the permission of the constituent's own MP.
However, I did get a response from Chris Peck, the All Party
Parliamentary Cycling Group Secretariat. Part of his reply says:
"It is very interesting to hear about the results of your consultation
with parents. Should we be suggesting this to the DfES as a potential
pilot project for introducing cycle training as part of the
curriculum? I know that most of the extra £15m promised for Cycling
England will be going directly to cycle training for children."
Are we just a few years away from a cycle training revolution for
schools? I estimate that £15m per year is sufficient to set up
National Standard cycle training to Level 3 in 3-5,000 one form entry
primary schools.
http://www.britishschoolofcycling.com/clients/schooltable
cycles to and from work in normal clothes and doesn't wear a helmet or
'funny shoes'. She is interested in expanding cycle training in
schools - which is exactly what I am doing. I sent her details of the
consultation I carried out with 120 parents and received over 100
replies. None of the replies were negative about the proposal.
Emily Thornberry didn't respond directly, I didn't expect her to as
there is a convention among MPs that they only respond to their own
constituents, or with the permission of the constituent's own MP.
However, I did get a response from Chris Peck, the All Party
Parliamentary Cycling Group Secretariat. Part of his reply says:
"It is very interesting to hear about the results of your consultation
with parents. Should we be suggesting this to the DfES as a potential
pilot project for introducing cycle training as part of the
curriculum? I know that most of the extra £15m promised for Cycling
England will be going directly to cycle training for children."
Are we just a few years away from a cycle training revolution for
schools? I estimate that £15m per year is sufficient to set up
National Standard cycle training to Level 3 in 3-5,000 one form entry
primary schools.
http://www.britishschoolofcycling.com/clients/schooltable