Just saw an add on TV that was about walking to school and how children should always cross the road with an adult until the age of 10. Is this a law or a recommendation? This would imply that most children should not walk to school without an adult. What constitutes an adult in this situation?

I am shall we say paranoid. Rough upbringing probably the cause so my kids have never walked to school on their own. But I have never heard these recommendations before. Our school discourages children walking to school without parents. Our school has close associations with family of a child that was abducted and murdered, his father gives talks every year. So I'm pretty sure this has a lot to do with the schools stance on walking to school. We also have walking buses. Where parents roster on for walking a group of kids to school. They have a designated route and parents walk to the route and the walking bus meets them.

Thoughts?