School pupils lose free bus travel in cutbacks

COUNCILLORS will save £11,400 a year after putting the brakes on free bus passes at two schools.

Travel assistance for nearly 50 youngsters heading to Aston Fence Junior and Infants or Aston Academy has been revoked after 15 years.

Pupils travelling from the Coalbrook Estate in Woodhouse Mill had been eligible because the walk to school unsafe.

A Rotherham Borough Council spokesman said: “Recent reviews by Transportation Unit have now identified an available safe walking route.”

Current zero-fare passes can be used until the end of the school year in July but will not be renewed in September.

Last September the council pulled a similar free travel scheme at Blackburn Primary School, saving £8,500 a year

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