WHEN I went to school there wasn’t a school crossing warden, though we did benefit from the advice of the public service broadcasts which urged us to look out for oncoming traffic.

We had just emerged from the Second World War, after which I suppose going to and from school was unworthy of risk assessment.

Like other small creatures, we had to learn the dangers of the roads by experience; we did not all get by unscathed.

Before school crossing wardens are abolished, shouldn’t a risk assessment be done? After all, we now have a greater volume of traffic, together with a risk unaware generation of children. To remove a safeguard is not the same as not having one in the first place.

Gerard Wild, Richmond.