Bus chaperone petition handed in at Shire Hall
Parents who successfully campaigned against Warwickshire County Council axing passenger transport assistants from school bus services, presented their petition to Cllr. Les Caborn & Cllr. Jose Compton, outside Shire Hall recently. Pictured presenting the petition: Caroline Adams.
A VICTORY for parent power was marked at Shire Hall in Warwick this week when campaigners handed in a petition to reinstate passenger transport assistants on school buses.
Members of the Save our School Bus Passenger Transport Assistants group had set up a petition against Warwickshire County Council’s decision to axe the chaperones as a money saving measure, and almost 7,000 people backed the campaign
The council has already performed a U-turn on its decision with Cllr Heather Timms (Con, Earl Craven), the county councillor responsible for policy on children, young people and families, announcing that the authority had been able to make the £1.4 million saving from the school transport programme through other measures.
Campaigners were still keen to show the strength of feeling against the decision in case the issue were ever to surface again and parent Caroline Adams presented the petition to the councillors at the authority’s headquarters on Tuesday morning.
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