an 18 year old was stabbed to death barely a mile from here a few weeks ago. this park is just a couple of minutes walk away from the school so lots of people will congregate here and they might play football or cricket in the summer, but it is also a potential dangerous flashpoint because there is a lot of criminal activity here as well drug dealing, weapons have been stashed here so that is why the chaperones come, notjust to act as a point of reassurance for the children who use this, but also as a deterrent to the criminal activity. we found a machete into the ackers woods just up there. callam dunne has brought me to the park that he and the other chaperones patrol after school. it is known as the ackers and is right next to the ark boulton academy. when bad things happen, it s not often in the eyesight of the public so that s why green areas and big parks like this are often places where a lot of things will happen out of eyesight. callam says that because they spend so much t
expectation is he will say that the restrictions such as they are in england will remain the same. they will be reviewed again towards the tail end of this month. in some high crime inner city areas, children are being helped to and from school by adult chaperones. it s based on a successful scheme in chicago and is being piloted in the west midlands. the schools taking part have been chosen based on police intelligence, as our midlands correspondent phil mackie reports. guys, you can come through, you can come through. you look nice. thank you. towering above the children leaving the ark boulton academy in sparkhill in birmingham is callam dunne. guys, do you want to come through? he works for mad, or make a difference, and he is one of a group of chaperones who keep students safe on their way into and out of school. the chaperones are in the prominent places, if you like, i so they are easily identifiable i by the students, they are on key routes home and also in areas i that we k