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Leaving aside the question of whether helmets are actually helpful, I can't see why the school need to do anything other than recommend students wear one.
Recommending helmet use is a massive hostage to fortune; I can't see why anybody in their right mind would do it, simply because doing so makes you the target for litigation when it turns out that 8oz of Styrofoam isn't all that effective when confronted with 2 tons of steel.
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No one could possibly ever be sued for recommending wearing a helmet.
The Highway Code recommends wearing a helmet.
A helmet and white trainers:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cyclists-59-to-82
Whatcha gonna do, sue the Highway Code? The fucking queen wrote that m8.
Hefty
IMO it's good practice for a school to show it has considered the risk of different methods of getting to school and has given recommendations to students to limit that risk.
The schools I work with, for example, have suggested safer cycling and walking routes.
Ask the school where the decision has stemmed from, my guess would be the governors, and get in touch with the relevant person, probably the chair of the governors. If it was a governing body decision the minutes of the meeting where it was discussed should be available to you. If it wasn't the governors find out who at the school is responsible for safeguarding, it'll be a decision made, or at least ratified, by that person. It may or may not be the head.
Leaving aside the question of whether helmets are actually helpful, I can't see why the school need to do anything other than recommend students wear one.