(14 Jun 2016, 8:16 pm)Deleted wrote U16 cards should be the responsibility of the schools. They should be available for free school travel before 0930 and between 1500 and 1700. The cost should be taken from the ENCTS budget, to weight it out OAP ENCTS passes should not be valid  when U16 passes are. It's unacceptable that a child with no form of income has to pay to travel to school but a pensioner who had a source of income travels for free.

Difficulty is that most schools are running as academies these days, so to you or I, it's a private business. You'd be unable to (or at least no appetite to) legislate that a private business has to pay for kids to travel free, but you could devolve home to school transport or scholars to schools. It remains with the LEA at present.