Like Street Pastors, the Schools Pastors initiative helps Christians to be relevant to and engaged with their communities. Teams are now operating in sixteen areas across the country, in secondary schools and in the post-16 sector, with more teams in the pipeline. Schools Pastors go on patrol at times and locations agreed with the school: listening, observing and looking out for young people that are vulnerable. They build links with students, parents, school-crossing patrols and other professionals. Most of all they aim to be prayerfully aware of God's direction in all that they do as they work with pupils experiencing difficulties in some area of their school life. They will build relationships with pupils who are disruptive in class, finding it difficult to participate/engage in classroom learning, regularly being excluded from class, or on final warnings for exclusion from school.