You saw a kid riding badly.
Here is how to reach their parent, without ever finding out who they are.
Somebody used to just tell the parents.
That is what a street used to do. A neighbor saw a kid go through a junction without looking, and later that evening the parents heard about it, and the kid heard about it from them. Nobody was in trouble and nothing became a formal event.
That does not happen much any more, mostly because people no longer know which house a child came from. This is a way of putting that one thing back, and nothing else.
Reporting is not open yet.
The line is not switched on, so nothing you typed was sent anywhere. Please do come back.
If somebody is hurt or in danger, call your emergency number rather than waiting for this.
Thank you.
If that plate is registered, your message will be passed on to the family.
We are not able to tell you whether it was, or who it belongs to. That is the same answer everybody gets, and it is the reason the plate is safe to put on a bike in the first place.
Why you get the same answer either way
If this form said sent for a real plate and not found for a made-up one, anybody could sit and type numbers until they found the real ones. That would turn it into a way of working out which houses have children in them.
So it does not do that. Real number, invented number or a typo, you get the same page.
The numbers themselves are random with a check character rather than counted up one at a time, so guessing a live one is close to impossible. There is also a limit on how many messages one person can send.
- You type the number and what you sawNothing about you is collected unless you choose to put it in the message.
- We pass it to that family and nobody elseNo register, no list, no record a stranger can reach.
- You are told nothing backNot who they are, not where they live, not whether the plate was even real.
A parent gets a message, and then has a conversation.
That is the whole outcome. No fine, no report, no record against a child, nobody official involved. A parent finds out something they would otherwise never have found out, and decides for themselves what to do about it.
Most of what comes through this will be small. A junction taken too fast, a sidewalk ridden the wrong way, a helmet left at home. Small is exactly the point — small is the stage where a conversation still works.
What we can and cannot tell you.
What is actually on the plate?
A code, and nothing else. No name, no age, no address, and nothing in the code is worked out from any of those.
A child’s name never leaves their own family’s account.
Will the family know it was me?
Only if you put it in the message yourself. We do not collect your name and we do not pass on anything you did not type.
Can I find out what happened?
No. We are not able to tell you anything at all about a plate, including whether it exists.
If there were an exception for people with good reasons, the exception would be the hole.
Somebody is hurt, or in danger right now.
This form is not for that and it is not watched minute by minute. Call your emergency number.
Come back afterwards if you still want the family to know.
Is a plate a license?
No. A Badge Kids plate says a child finished a course. It is not a permit, it is not a registration, and it does not entitle anybody to ride anywhere.
No child has to have one.
I want my child’s plate taken out.
Remove it in your family account. You hold that record, not us, and taking it out takes effect straight away.
What if the police or a school ask you about a plate?
We hold nothing that would answer them. There is no national register of children here and there was never going to be.
Anything about a child lives on that family’s own site, in their control.
The rest of what we do and do not keep
Everything about what Badge Kids stores, what a parent can see, what happens if you stop paying, and why none of it becomes a database of children.
READ THE PRIVACY FAQ