PETER FOX MS ON HOME TO SCHOOL TRANSPORT

Peter Fox MS talks on the MCC decision to change the statutory requirements for free home to school transport

Transcript

00:00Well it was disappointing to hear this week that Monmouthshire County Council's Cabinet

00:10have decided to move home-to-school transport mileages to the statutory maximum requiring

00:19secondary school children to walk at least three miles to school and those at primary to two miles

00:25to school now this is something i as a past leader at a council and following conservative controlled

00:32administrations resisted because in a rural authority likes of Monmouthshire you have to

00:38provide safe routes to school safe walking routes to school and the requirement now to on the council

00:45will be significant in making sure that those people who would children who are now going to

00:51have to walk those extra mileages can do that safely this is a cost-cutting measure and it's not

00:58putting the needs of our young people first and sadly we're seeing this far too often in Monmouthshire

01:04County Council now where these rash decisions are being made without the deepest thought that's needed