Lollipop staff could lose their jobs as a west London council has decided to axe school crossing patrols.
The threat to some school crossing patrols is removed and support for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme is to be continued.
Dozens of parents, schoolchildren and protesters against the cutting of 65 Dorset school crossing patrols have handed in a petition to the council.
All primary and secondary schools will be open and mainstream school bus services will continue to operate, but there will be no school crossing patrollers.
Elizabeth Clark, Lately School Crossing Patrol, Annette Street Primary School, Glasgow.
School crossing patrollers are due to take part in the action so parents and children have been advised to take extra care when travelling to school.
The girl in the school children crossing sign is based on a picture of herself.
The pupil from the Priory School was using a pedestrian crossing on Longden Road in February when an ambulance on a 999 call drove through a red light.
Options include reducing free school bus services, axing lunchtime crossing patrols and changes to bin collections.
Councillors will vote on whether to reduce free school bus services, axe lunchtime crossing patrols and change bin collections.
Meanwhile, parents are "just crossing their fingers and hoping somebody will budge, " said Evie Gurney, the director of high-school placement at Bank Street School for Children.
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