A thousand lollipop ladies have been axed since 2010 – putting children’s lives at risk, a Mirror investigation reveals today.

Tory-led budget cuts mean councils are firing school crossing patrols, who earn an average of £3,000 a year.

One teacher warned town hall bosses they will have “blood on their hands” if children died on the roads.

Reported by the Daily Mirror. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.