Cherry Orchard Primary School has been without a lollipop person for over a year now. Ex-Mayor of Worcester, Cllr Louis Stephen is getting behind local parent’s campaign for a safe crossing to allow school children to walk to school safely.
Cllr Louis Stephen said, “Like a lot of schools, the roads around Cherry Orchard Primary School have become very dangerous at the start and end of the day. It’s dangerous in these circumstances to allow children to cross the road by themselves. Someone is going to get hurt. Not having a safe crossing means we deny older primary age children the indepence of walking to school by themselves. In a vicious circle, understandably it means that many parents chose to drive their children to school leading to even more congestion in the city and the daily mayhem we see outside all of our schools at drop off and pickup times of the day. It’s a paid position – job applications are open for a new lollipop person- is there anybody willing to stepup to help our local children?”