Warrington families face school travel costs

9:23am Tuesday 16th October 2012 in News

Clr Colin Froggatt Clr Colin Froggatt

MANY parents will now have to fork out for school transport after councillors voted to remove its support.

Dozens of parents and pupils turned out for the executive board meeting at the Town Hall last night to voice their opposition to the plan.

Following a consultation councillors conceded two changes to its original plan with Year 10 and 11 pupils still eligable for the transport assistance until 2014/15 to avoid disrupting their GCSEs and low income families also getting funding to pay for transport to school costs.

Clr Colin Froggatt, executive board member for children and young people’s services said: “We have listened to the concerns of those who responded to this consultation and have made some amendments to our original plans. "Unfortunately this council is continuing to have to make some very tough decisions about its spending owing to a significant reduction in funding from the government.”

To find out more visit warrington.gov.uk.

Comments(7)

richiepooh says...
9:55am Tue 16 Oct 12

Maybe if you lot hadn't closed 50% of Warrington schools over the past twenty years kids would live near schools and could walk, other parents would not have to drive and the environment would be saved. No offence but you're all idiots. Ok maybe some offence but then you are all idiots (just sayin). But don't worry the money you save on this can be spent on some roadworks that will need changing in a month.

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richiepooh says...
9:55am Tue 16 Oct 12

Maybe if you lot hadn't closed 50% of Warrington schools over the past twenty years kids would live near schools and could walk, other parents would not have to drive and the environment would be saved. No offence but you're all idiots. Ok maybe some offence but then you are all idiots (just sayin). But don't worry the money you save on this can be spent on some roadworks that will need changing in a month.

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Nick Tessla says...
10:34am Tue 16 Oct 12

Support your local High School - most kids could then walk to school.

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chunkymunky says...
10:53am Tue 16 Oct 12

Nick Tessla wrote:
Support your local High School - most kids could then walk to school.
but what if you local high school is naff? has a poor ofsted report, poor history of teaching skills?!?!? Would you still send your children there or try and get them into a better school?!?1

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grey_man says...
11:02am Tue 16 Oct 12

The savings need to be made to pay for the **** ups on the roads and payoffs for staff who should have been sacked for gross misconduct. And executive pay.

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Nick Tessla says...
10:46am Wed 17 Oct 12

In the days of yore when I went to High School, the council only provided free transport if the journey was for more than four miles * - i suspect that would, for example, exclude most the kids who travel from the Padgate area to Birchwood High School.


(* as it happens my nearest school was that far away, like most areas of the country, my home town didn't have as many high schools as Warrington has in such a small geographical area)

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Eyerate says...
6:19pm Wed 17 Oct 12

This will mean the actvities of the careless parking brigade will cause more trouble in and around the schools.

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