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Ministers ‘must fund extra school travel costs’

School Transport

01 June 2020
 

The Government must fund the additional costs of providing school transport during Covid-19 social distancing, the Urban Transport Group has said. 

The UTG wants the Government to meet the “full additional costs resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic on the provision of transport to schools and colleges”. The Government  should also open a dialogue with transport authorities on the operational challenges of schools restarting, it says. 

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