£700 to get your child to school?

Available for over a year

Parents in parts of West Berkshire are going to be charged £700 a year to get their children to school on the bus. The cost is going up from the next school year. It will affect parents whose catchment school isn't their nearest school. Emma-Jayne and Michelle's children aren't eligible for free travel because they live too far away. "Everyone was consulted on paying £250 per child, and everyone signed to say they would pay. The problem is this year that nobody has been consulted." Councillor Lynne Doherty is in charge of children's services in West Berkshire. "We have consulted on this, to say that we haven't is quite strange because it was determined that all subsidies would be removed in our 2016 budget."