Government Minister to visit Liverpool school for Bobby Colleran Trust road safety programme

The Bobby Colleran Trust will welcome Lilian Greenwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Transport, and Ian Byrne MP to Blackmoor Park Infant School tomorrow to see its road safety education programme in action.

The Bobby Colleran Trust has organised this special visit to showcase their Stay Safe with Super Bob programme, a child-friendly road safety initiative designed to help pupils understand how to stay safe as pedestrians, passengers and future independent travellers. We are very grateful to Ed Naylor, Headteacher at Blackmoor Infants School, who has kindly agreed to host the event at his school and involve the children in the session. The visit will give the Minister and local MP the opportunity to see first-hand how the Trust delivers engaging, age-appropriate road safety education to young children.

The programme has been developed by The Bobby Colleran Trust, the Liverpool-based charity founded in memory of Bobby Colleran, who tragically lost his life in a road traffic collision outside school. Since then, the Trust has worked tirelessly to raise awareness, educate children and families, and campaign for safer roads around schools.

The newly expanded Stay Safe with Super Bob resource has grown from an educational video into a full school pack, designed for use across multiple lessons with Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils. The pack includes classroom activities, discussion prompts, practical learning tasks, quizzes, certificates and creative exercises covering key road safety themes such as Stop, Look, Listen and Think, being bright and visible, safe crossing, unsafe parking around schools, and understanding hazards on the school journey. The pack can be taught independently by schools so the impact could be seen right across UK schools.

Following the school visit, representatives will attend an informal light lunch at Bobby’s Base, where The Bobby Colleran Trust team will hold discussions around future support and the opportunity to develop the initiative into a national road safety education programme for schools.

Lilian Greenwood MP currently serves as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Transport, with responsibilities including local transport and active travel. She previously served as Minister for the Future of Roads and has represented Nottingham South since 2010. 

Ian Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Liverpool West Derby, will also attend the visit. Mr Byrne has represented the constituency since 2019. 

Joanne Colleran, Founder of The Bobby Colleran Trust, said:

“Bobby’s legacy has always been about protecting children and making sure no other family has to experience the pain that ours has.

“To have Lilian Greenwood MP and Ian Byrne MP visit Blackmoor Park Infant School and see the programme being delivered is a huge moment for the Trust. We have worked so hard to turn Bobby’s story into something positive and practical that schools can use to teach children life-saving road safety messages.

“Our ambition now is to see Stay Safe with Super Bob used by schools across the country, helping children understand risk, make safer choices and feel more confident when travelling in their local communities.”

The programme is designed to be flexible for schools and can be delivered as a one-off session, a short series of lessons, or as part of PSHE, Road Safety Week, transition work or a wider whole-school safety campaign.

The Trust hopes the visit will help open further conversations about how road safety education can be embedded more widely across schools, with the aim of creating safer, more aware young citizens.

Find out more about The Bobby Colleran Trust here.

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