Does your primary school allow children to walk home alone?

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Straw poll. Are children at your primary school (up to age 11) allowed to walk home alone?

Yes, from y3. Mine started walking home in y4

In Scotland generally P3 -P4 upwards but a parental not school decision
Legally once a parent sends a letter saying my child "teacup"will walk to school and back alone with my permission there is nothing the school can do unless they genuinely believe it is a risk for that specific child on that specific journey not a blanket rule
social services are not interested unless a specific risk so if 7 year old Fred lives next door to school there is highly unlikely to be a child specific risk but 9 year old Fred that has to cross a dual carriageway with no crossing point then walk a mile is a risk.

Schools like to give the impression they can stop a Y4 or 5 from leaving alone but in reality they can't

As a primary supply teacher, I’m given a list of who is allowed to walk home/leave without an adult.

Year 5/6 with written permission. Same for the school I work at.

Was y3 and above for ages and then they changed it to y6 only really annoying ds1 who then had to stop walking home.

Ds2 is now in year 5 and has been given special permission as I said I wasn't comfortable with the lack of social distancing going on at pick up. We only live 2 mins away and there is only one small side street to cross. Dh grew up here and would walk home at the end of the day and for lunch from reception age!

Year 5 and 6 with parent permission

Year 5 and 6 with parental permission slip

Not until year 6, and only with a parental note sent in.

Apparently the new head has changed it since mine left so its not allowed until the last term of year 6!

Year 5 and 6 yes.
Year 4 with parental permission.

Almost all year 6 leave the school by themselves.

Y5 and Y6 can walk home alone with written permission.

Yes, year three and up.

Mine have left now but no, they weren’t.

Year 6 with permission slips at DD's school.

Years 5 and 6 with permission slips at the school I work at.

Year 5 and 6 with parental permission as well here.

Yes from year 5 (London)

Years 5 and 6 can but only if they have permission.

Year 4 onwards. No need for anything in writing.

Y6 with a signed consent form.

Can take a sibling who is in Y3,Y4 or Y5 home also if a consent form is signed for the sibling also.

Very strict and monitored.

Yr 5 and Yr6 with parental permission here. Most of Yr 5 don't, most of Yr 6 do.

No siblings allowed though unless also in 5 or 6.

In year 5 with written parental permission if school is satisfied with the arrangements. Universally in year 6.

I am in Scotland. P1and p2 handover to parent. No one checks after that so kids can walk home alone. My Ds didn't do it until p7 which is later than most.

Yes from y5, with a parental consent form signed. They children usually seem start after Christmas in y6 though, unless they live very close.

The, not they

Year 4 and up with parental permission here (given once at the beginning of the year).