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Some 95 per cent of the local government workforce already earns more than £7.20 an hour, but 92,820 earn less including street cleaners, school crossing patrols and school dinner staff, mostly part-timers.
However, it does seem pretty draconian to hound a decent man (crossing patrols are CRB checked just as teachers and teaching assistants are) for establishing a rapport with the children he helps to look after.
But it's not as if the leafy shires have been entirely insulated from the cuts: they too have fretted over the closure of libraries, youth clubs, school crossing patrols, and rural bus routes.
30 to 37 school crossing patrols cut.
Draft proposals include reducing the number of children going into care and reducing school crossing patrols.
The council also plans to pass on responsibility for school crossing patrols.
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Crossing patrol warden, Dunrobin primary school, Airdrie.
Luton borough council said the school crossing patrol officer had been dismissed for gross misconduct.
A 65 year old crossing patrol man has resigned from Plymouth City Council employment because he was facing suspension.
A crossing patrol with whom a child interacts every day becomes a benign, trusted authority figure in his or her life.
Some primary school children – watch them outside almost any schools – feel really quite affectionate towards the crossing patrol who is often an older, quasi-grandparental figure.
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