Tags: transport
Thurrock is latest council to charge for transport to faith schools
Posted: Tue, 17 Sep 2013
Thurrock Council in Essex is the latest to decide that it will no longer fund transport for pupils attending faith schools. Last year it spent £480,000 transporting children to religious schools outside their catchment areas. Read More »
Mother-of-two furious as one son gets free transport to Catholic school while the other doesn’t
Posted: Tue, 27 Aug 2013
The mother of two boys attending a Catholic school in Durham says she was told by the council that the younger of the two could not have free transport on the school bus because he wasn't baptised. Read More »
Leeds Council’s decision to cut free transport to religious schools survives challenge
Posted: Fri, 09 Aug 2013
Leeds City Council has seen off an attempt by opposition councillors to derail its plans to cut free transport for children attending "faith schools". Read More »
Wirral latest council to cut free transport to religious schools
Posted: Thu, 04 Jul 2013
Wirral council is the latest to make cuts to free transport for pupils attending religious schools. Read More »
Hull council latest to scrap free pupil transport to religious schools
Posted: Thu, 23 May 2013
Hull City Council is to cease discretionary funding transport for pupils attending "faith schools" from September 2014. The change will save £339,000 in 2014-15 according to council figures. Read More »
NSS condemns Flintshire Council's 'discriminatory' transport policy
Posted: Wed, 22 May 2013
The National Secular Society has criticised a decision by Flintshire Council to discriminate against people without religious faith in its school transport arrangements. Read More »
Plans to open Sikh faith school in Buckinghamshire village derailed
Posted: Wed, 15 May 2013
Controversial plans to open a Sikh free school in the Buckinghamshire village of Stoke Poges have been recommended for refusal by South Bucks District Council planning officers. Read More »
Protests as Luton council cuts free transport to religious schools
Posted: Tue, 30 Apr 2013
Councillors walked out of a meeting at Luton Town Hall this week when observers in the public gallery began shouting and waving placards in protest at the Councils plans to end free transport for pupils attending religious schools. Read More »
Free transport to “faith schools” axed in Leicester & Bath
Posted: Thu, 11 Apr 2013
Councillors on Leicester City Council have approved changes to 'home to school' transport that will see an end to subsidies for pupils attending "faith schools" in the City. Read More »
Leeds City Council under pressure from vested interests over school transport cuts
Posted: Wed, 27 Mar 2013
Leeds City Council is coming under pressure over its plan to scrap free transport for pupils travelling to "faith schools". Read More »
Pupils must "prove" their religion to qualify for free school buses
Posted: Sat, 09 Mar 2013
Flintshire County Council has launched a consultation on proposed changes to its discretionary home to school transport policy, that will require pupils attending faith schools to "prove" their religion to qualify for free school buses. Read More »
Sheffield Council to reconsider plan to scrap free bus travel to religious schools
Posted: Mon, 04 Mar 2013
Sheffield City Council is to postpone scrapping free bus travel for pupils attending religious schools after parents threatened legal action over what they consider the inadequacy of the initial consultation. Read More »
Leeds is latest council to consider scrapping free transport to religious schools
Posted: Wed, 20 Feb 2013
Leeds City Council is the latest to consider scrapping free transport to religious schools. The plan will mostly affect Catholic schools. Read More »
Cash-strapped Kent may restore subsidised school transport
Posted: Wed, 20 Feb 2013
A council that is facing devastating cuts to services and employment is considering reinstating free transport to "faith schools" after scrapping it last year. Read More »
Two more councils review “faith school” transport subsidies
Posted: Thu, 31 Jan 2013
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council has started a consultation on whether to scrap non-statutory subsidies to faith schools. Meanwhile, Bury Council in Lancashire — which voted last month to cut free transport for faith schools — is being threatened with a judicial review by opponents. Read More »
West London consultation on school transport changes
Posted: Fri, 25 Jan 2013
The London Boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hounslow have launched a consultation on home-to-school transport. If you live in any of these boroughs, please take part in the consultation. Read More »
Sheffield Council latest to axe free travel to religious schools
Posted: Mon, 17 Dec 2012
Sheffield City Council is the latest to scrap free transport for children attending religious schools. Read More »
If you can’t prove you’re a Christian, get off the school bus
Posted: Thu, 22 Nov 2012
Flintshire County Council is proposing to restrict subsidised school transport to religious schools to those pupils who can prove that they are of the religion that the school espouses. Read More »
Council promises to review its “apartheid-style” school transport policy
Posted: Fri, 05 Oct 2012
Northumberland Country Council has agreed to reconsider its policy of segregating children by religion on its school buses. Read More »
Parents object to school bus ‘apartheid’ in Northumberland
Posted: Fri, 28 Sep 2012
Northumberland County Council has introduced a new policy for school buses in which Catholic children get a free (and separate) bus to the local Catholic schools while non-Catholics attending the same schools have to pay (and go on another bus). Read More »
