Children should be nine or 10 before walking to school alone
Thursday 14th October 2010, 11:30AM BST.
Childminders Christine Scraton, 22, and Lyn Williams, 47, are worried by the prospect of young children walking to school unaccompanied. They are pictured with Zane Elliott, 1, Amelie Sole, 1 and Lewis Hodge, 2. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1039220)
CHILDREN should not walk to school until they are at least 10 years old, according to islanders.
Part-time cleaner Bernie Coutu, 46, said many roads were just not safe enough for young children to be left on their own.
‘They should be with a parent at all times,’ she said. ‘The speed at which some people drive is terrible.’
She said she walked her daughter Koritta, 8, and her grandson Cyrus, 7, to school every day.
Police this week urged parents not to let young children make the trip alone and said that under-eights must be accompanied.
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