Our campaign has received a further boost by the help of the Lincolnshire Fire Brigade and the Fire Preservation Services.

The Fire Preservation Service restores Fire Engines and they are used for fundarising for Charities that are connected with the emergency services i.e Firefighters Charity,Operation Florrin,Air Ambulance,Fire and Emergency support service and now Kids Cross Safely.

The new British Government has stated that if a petition gets 100,000 signatures,then the petition will be discussed in Parliament.

We want our campaign to be discussed in Parliament and thus our aim over the next 6 to 8 months is to get over 100,000 signatures.

Can it be done you may ask? Well we believe it can.We have huge support from schools,residents around the UK.

We will have the petition on line on our website so it can be downloaded and our supporters can collect signatures in their areas.It is People Power at its best.

We are already building a network of campaigners in the UK.

In the UK we have a new British government.It is a coalition govt between Conservatives and Liberals.We know that there will be severe cut backs and this will affect Local Authorities.Now how will this impact on campaigns and pressure groups such as ours?

Yes money will be tight and Local Authorities will have to make cut backs.Yet we believe at Kids Cross Safely that the safety of the children is the priority and that cut backs for safety cannot be allowed.We will continue to campaign to #makeitsafe and we will have the support of the parents,guardians and residents .

We will continue to fight on and make sure the children will be heard.

Walk to School http://www.walktoschool.org.uk/content/our_events.php normally takes place in May every year in the UK.It is a scheme to try and encourage children to walk to their school rather than be driven by car.

It is a good idea.Its a good idea to encourage children and parents to walk to school.Yet if we want to encourage walking to school we must give the parents the security that it is safe to walk to school.

Parents drive to school for various reasons.One of those reasons is actually fear.They feel it is safer for their children to be driven to school as walking to school isn’t safe!

We can undestand parents concern.In the 21st Century nearly every household has two,even three cars.Cars are built for speed and no longer are gears used to slow down a car.Its easy to go from 1st gear to 5th.Cars that are going at 40mph feel as if they are going at 10mph.Its a different world.

So what we need to do first is to make it safe.We need to do this by making sure all our schools have safety measures.We need to provide the schools with safe crossings,speeds outside schools should be reduced to at least 20mph compulsary.We should have safe routes to schools,better cycle lanes.We should become pedestrian friendly once again.

This is the only way to get the children walking to school all year around and not just one week in a year.These schemes are good but they don’t tackle the real issues.Firstly #makeitsafe and KIDS CROSS SAFELY is a campaign that wants to do this.

Kids Cross Safely campaign has grown over the last few months.We have a good following on Twitter and have had various interest from the media.We are hoping to combine with http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/ as a joint effort to put pressure on Local Authorities to consider crossings around schools,reduced speeds around schools and roads leading to schools.Kids Cross Safely would like clearly marked safe routes for children to walk to  and from school.

In the coming weeks we will be updating this website and would welcome comments and thoughts on the campaign,also we want to hear from you,campaigns you are involved in,what help you would require from the campaign.

We will be campaigning on the ground.It is  a campaign for the people by the people to help children get to and from school safely.So lets #makeitsafe and lets #makethedifference

What we want to do is make it safe for our children in the United Kingdom to get to and from school.

The United Kingdom has one of the worst child pedestrian death rates in Western Europe and in the developed world.

“One childs death is one too many”

Yet many schools around the UK do not have safe pedestrian crossings.Many schools do not have 20 mph zones and many do not have a lollipop person.

In order to have a pedestrian crossing the school must fit the criteria.This criteria can be found on many local Council websites.It normally depends on how many cars,how many pedestrians and how many accidents.

Kids Cross Safely would like to know why a criteria should a apply near a school ? A school should have a safe crossing.The children have a right to be safe when going to and from school.They should be there,no buts,no ifs,they should be there.

This campaign is about making the changes to make it safe and we need all the support we can get.If you feel strongly and want to help us make the changes to save childrens lives please sign the petition.

This website will be updated with reports on our campaign.