Herts asks schools to organise transport

Hertfordshire is to encourage schools to arrange their own home-to-school transport for most pupils once it withdraws services it has no duty to provide to save £6m a year.

The county council says it wants “to ensure that local schools are empowered to procure and manage transport in the medium- to long-term”. This will see schools and parents – who would be paying customers – decide upon the routes that buses run on, the vehicles used and the level of...

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