Request 101004076442

School Crossing Patrols

1. Could you please provide for each of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and for the most recent date available

a) the number of School Crossing Patrol officers ('lollipop' staff) in post in your area, whether employed by the council or provided by another body on its behalf;

b) of these, how many were funded by

(i) the council,

(ii) schools,

(iii) sponsors or other third parties;

c) the number of School Crossing Patrol sites (crossing points), and how many of these were vacant.

2. If your council no longer provides a School Crossing Patrol service, or has passed responsibility to schools or another body, please tell me when this happened

Response 12-Nov-2026

The Council stopped employing school crossing patrollers in 2019