[David Weller]

Hi Angela,

Within the Kent County Council area, we have several schools that fund their own patrol, and one patrol is sponsored by the local parish council who pay the school to employ the patrol. We recently reviewed our old SLA with the schools in this situation employing an external legal firm to research and interpret exactly the question you have asked. This has resulted in a far more comprehensive SLA that we require the schools to sign and show proof before we engage in training, monitoring, risk assessing, etc. The summary of the legal advice was that under the circumstances outlined above, their professional opinion was that this was possible, especially for the sponsored school crossing patrol; effectively it means rather than us complete all the necessary recruitment, emphasis is on the school with our SLA enabling us the train and, subsequently, authorise the individual(s) to stop traffic. We do offer our assistance in terms of interview process to ensure we are going to be training appropriate staff. Currently we do this at no additional cost to the schools, but has enabled many to retain a patrol that we would not have funded.
Any costs in establishing the site e.g. signage, drop kerbs, etc that were required would have to be funded by the thirty, as would any costs of uniform etc.
Regards,
David

[David Weller]

Good morning Frances,

At Kent County Council, we currently do not charge schools for the provision of RCPs. If the crossing location does not meet RSGB criteria then the school can pay for their own RCP and we provide the lawful authority via a legally informed Service Level Agreement, but provide training, monitoring, risk assessing (currently) at no cost to the school, but they pay for uniform costs.
Kind regards,
David

[David Weller]

Hi Joanne,

This is a consideration for a few of our crossing patrol locations both in respect of the vehicle issue, but also to be clear to pedestrians where the crossing point actually is as opposed to entering the road any distance from the patrol.
We have some sites using a non-statutory yellow ‘box’ but also starting to use a different coloured and textured road surface to indicate the crossing point. In the locations originally using the yellow box, it has assisted in keeping the crossing clearer of vehicles.

Many thanks

David

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