Over 400 children at schools in Wishaw and Motherwell no longer qualify for local authority transport.
MSP Clare Adamson raised North Lanarkshire Council cuts to school transport provision at First Minister’s Questions.
Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7. “Some of the alternative safe walking routes identified by the council present clear risks. I have walked some of these routes with parents and pupils over unmanned junctions, fast roundabouts, and a carriageway at Airbles Road.
The council’s decision now sees secondary pupils living more than three miles from their catchment school qualifying for transport provision, compared to the previous two-mile limit – with the relevant distance for primary pupils set to double to two miles in 12 months’ time. High school pupils returned to school recently but parents say many of those affected by the change were let down by public transport, with buses not turning up or drivers limiting the number of children being allowed on.
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