(14 Jun 2016, 9:57 pm)Adrian wrote 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.

I would be disgusted if one of these acadamies could not organise the issue of pop/child fare passees to there children or are they customers now? It's a once a year activity apart from a few reissues for lost/defective cards. They would be little costs involved as it would be paid for by OAP passes not being valid when Children's passes are. Could even be a cost saving as less children could be travelling than OAPs would have in the time slot