CHILDREN will be safer on their way to school thanks to a donation of 190 high-visibility arm bands.
The gift to Warden Park Primary Academy in Haywards Heath came from housebuilder Taylor Wimpey. Pupils wear the bands over their coats on their way to and from school.
The donation is part of a national Taylor Wimpey scheme to supply more than 14,900 bands to schoolchildren across the country.
According to Living Streets, the charity behind the Walk to School campaign, 70 per cent of youngsters made the journey to school on foot a generation ago but now that number has more than halved.
The organisation aims to reverse this downward trend.
Jason Stokes, regional sales and marketing director, said: “We are thrilled to be supporting Walk to School again this year.”
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