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Below are links to sites where we have found useful information about school travel.
Balham.com
www.balham.com
Local information, discussion forums and links.
BBC school tables
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/03/school_tables/primary_schools/html/212_2495.stm
Comparative information about Ravenstone School including league tables.
Department for Education and Skills
www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/downloadableDocs/SchoolTravelProspectus.pdf
Draft School Travel Plan Bill and Prospectus.
Living Streets
www.livingstreets.org.uk
A national organisation campaigning to reverse trends that 'have allowed traffic priorities to overwhelm our local streets and public places, and failed to keep them clean and safe'.
Ofsted report on Ravenstone School
www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=101017
Ravenstone School Ofsted report.
The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety
www.pacts.org.uk
A registered charity and associate Parliamentary Group. Its charitable objective is 'To promote transport safety legislation to protect human life'. The site has information about the School Transport Bill and associated lobbying.
Safe Routes to School
www.saferoutestoschools.org.uk
Information about projects to improve school travel, sponsored by Sustrans.
Sustrans
www.sustrans.org.uk
Sustainable transport charity. Projects include the National Cycle Network and Safe Routes to School. Statistics, information about funding sources, links to other online resources (including schemes in other countries) and lots of ideas about how to incorporate school travel education in the curriculum.
Transport 2000
www.transport2000.org.uk
Independent national body concerned with sustainable transport.
Transport for London
www.tfl.gov.uk
Travel information from the body responsible for London's transport system.
www.tfl.gov.uk/streets/cycling/cycling-londoncycleguides.shtml
Free London Cycle Guides: Balham is map no.14.
Up My Street
www.upmystreet.com/overview/?l1=SW12+9SS
General comparative information and discussion about living in the area.
Walking Buses
www.walkingbus.com
www.walkingbus.org
What a Walking Bus is and how to set one up.
Wandsworth Council
www.wandsworth.gov.uk
Well organised site with a good search engine, giving access to maps, planning applications, census statistics and other transport- and travel-related data.
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/EnvironmentandTransport/RoadSafety/roadsafetyplan.htm
Links to Wandsworth's Road Safety Plans.
Wandsworth Cyclists
www.wandsworthcyclists.org.uk/directory.shtml
Directory of cycling services in and around Wandsworth.
Wikipeda
www.wikipedia.org
Information about anything and everything (though not School Travel Plans or Walking Buses – yet).