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- The UK Home Office will launch a chaperone scheme for children traveling to and from school.
- Up to 250 high-risk schools will be identified with new mapping technology.
- Adult volunteers from charities and teachers will serve as chaperones, based on Chicago’s model that reduced crime by 14%.
- A West Midlands trial showed pupils felt safer, and the Home Office will invest £1.2 million to support Labour’s ten-year knife-crime target.
