Car travel
Parents and carers are responsible for their child's safety when travelling to and from school. Schools take over responsibility and duty of care for the student once they enter the school premises.
Child car seats
Parents and staff transporting a child between 4 and 7 years of age in their own private vehicle must be restrained in an approved child car or booster seat that is properly fitted to the vehicle and adjusted to fit the child’s body correctly.
Refer to Transport for NSW's child car seats advice and regulations about the correct child car seat for a child's age and size.
Key road safety messages for passenger safety
- Click clack front and back
- Always buckle up safely
- Get in and out of the car on the footpath side.
Referenced from TfNSW Key road safety messages
Safe car travel advice
Primary schools can support their parents and carers with advice about:
- Travelling safely to and from school by car
- Benefits of not using a car to travel to and from school
- Driving and parking safely (Translations available in 36 languages)
- When can I move my child from a booster seat?
- Translations available in 36 languages
- Excursions and road safety
Transport for NSW's advice:
Useful links
- Department's legal advice Duty of care and behaviour management About child restraints in motor vehicles, (staff only - scroll down)
- Safety Town - families information about child car seats laws, in and out of the car safely
- department’s Excursion Policy Implementation Procedures (section 9 Transport, pp 15-16)