Just a little bit of personal info (won't share too much, but enough to give you a perspective of my position).

My eldest son from a previous relationship is going to a Comprehensive School in Tyne & Wear, but just 2 miles from the Co Durham border.

I live just inside Tyne & Wear, so he has a POP card giving excellent value fares.
The direct bus he could have got from my house to his school has ceased running at the behest of GNE.
His alternative is to get two buses each way(staying in T&W) and pay £1.10.
If goes to school or comes home via Co Durham, his POP card is invalid and it will cost a small fortune.

His mam lives in Co Durham (nearer the school than me). The direct bus he could have got from there to school has also stopped running at the behest of GNE.
He will also need to get two buses to school and two buses home, paying a small privilege to hang about waiting for connections.

If the CAT funding stops and he can't use his POP card, I dread to think how much it would cost to get him to/from school - unless he has a multitude of dentist and doctor appointments every day, before and after school to counter the rip off peak fares, it wouldn't be feasible for him to use public transport... Exactly the opposite of what we are being encouraged to do and makes the Nexus employee visiting schools and encouraging uptake of public transport and the POP card redundant.

This isn't me demanding GNE (or whoever else) put these services back on and let him travel from door to door (even though the services were popular) it is me stating how much of an impact these funding shortfalls will have on a real persons education and our pockets.