It’s sort of happening now,
It’s sort of happening now, but in the usual piecemeal British fashion, aren’t Cycling England, CTC, Sustrans involved in bringing new cycling proficience training in to schools – one of my kids did the new one and it was very thorough. Sadly though, uptake amongst schools is not uniform and it is voluntary. The ideal would be Dave Brailsford’s idea of making cycling part of the national curriculum