Series

The Highgate Files

1. Part 1
   Analysis

   A pupil died outside Highgate School this morning. Was she less protected because her school is private?

   The suspicion after a death outside a fee-paying school is that councils look after state pupils first. Haringey's record says otherwise. The real gap is that the one protection councils have rolled out at scale cannot be used on the main roads where children are most at risk.

   Sep 24 · 6 min read · 13 sources

   
2. Part 2
   Analysis

   Do councils leave private schools out of road safety schemes? In some boroughs, yes. We checked eight

   After the death outside Highgate School, we asked whether fee-paying schools get the same protection as state ones. Haringey's record was fair. Barnet's and Wandsworth's are not: neither has a single private school among its School Streets. It comes down to who gets to choose.

   Sep 24 · 7 min read · 20 sources