North Lanarkshire councillors agreed in last year’s budget to increase the eligibility threshold for school transport to the national statutory minimums of two miles for primary pupils and three for secondary, compared to the authority’s current levels of one and two miles respectively.
Opposition councillors are driving a “last-ditch attempt” to reverse North Lanarkshire ’s forthcoming cut to school transport eligibility.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you. Their motion “notes the concern of many parents and young people over the safety of the routes identified to walk to school following the decision to withdraw funded transport from August; notes the £8m surplus reported to the finance committee and agrees that £2m of this be used to continue providing transport for secondary school pupils for 2024-25”.
Council officials say costs have soared by 50 per cent in the past three years, with school transport costing the authority “aroud £120,000 daily” and the cut expected to save £3.6m for the authority.
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