19 June 2023
Warning to Councils to provide appropriate transport
The UK’s Ombudsman has highlighted councils’ duty to provide free, suitable transport to school or college for disabled children and adults.
It follows the case of a mother from Stockton-on-Tees. She had to take her young adult son to and from college for three academic years because the council failed to recognise its duty to arrange free transport.
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