Tuesday 29 November 6-8pm Dulwich parents and kids will be demonstrating outside full Council Assembly at The Charter School.

Councillors tend to arrive for council assembly pre meetings which start at 6pm and 7pm the full council session kicks off. For the life of me I can’t see why Dulwich or Southwark kids are being put at risk by the proposals to remove School Crossing Patrols – Lollipop people – from dangerous junctions even if they’re signalled. This is especially bad when the budget that pays for them is the Parking Review Account partly funded by parking permits which have recently been increased from £99.30 to £125 pa. We need to make parents feel happy about their kids walking to school and we need kids to have the freedom to do this safely from the earliest possible age. Ending the proposed SCP’s is contrary to both – and from a council that proclaims its fighting childhood obesity!