Professionals have been placed in busy areas across Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Wolverhampton as part of a pilot scheme to reduce youth crime before and after school.
The scheme, called Step Together, will see youth workers placed along 18 routes to schools across the West Midlands as part of the £1.2m project funded by the Home Office and the Youth Endowment Fund.
The scheme is based on a similar successful project run in the US city of Chicago with routes chosen based on police data around anti-social behaviour close to schools.
Research by the Greater London Authority, published in 2018, found that children are most likely to be involved in violence between 3pm and 10pm on a school day.
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