(14 Jun 2016, 10:37 pm)Deleted wrote 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

They're customers. No longer is it a case you'd go to the school that you're in the catchment area of, but more so you've got a case of all academies in the area, competing for "business". Whether we like it or not, kids enrolled at the academy all come with a monetary value attached to them - i. e. What the academy receives for educating that kid.

Whether that is right or wrong is not really the point of this thread, but I hope it provides a bit of background as to why it's unlikely to happen. Although I do agree with you that it should be part and parcel of being enrolled in mandatory education.