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Eligibility - About You

The council must provide free-of-charge school transport arrangements for eligible children that live in Thurrock.

A child is eligible if they are of compulsory school age, attend their nearest suitable school and live more than the legal walking distance from that school:

or could not reasonably be expected to walk to that school because of their special educational needs, disability or mobility problem, even if they were accompanied by their parent
or would not be able to walk to that school in reasonable safety, even if they were accompanied by their parent

There are ‘extended rights’ to free travel to school for children from low-income households.

We are consulting on the following proposed changes:

a change for families placed in temporary accommodation within Thurrock
a change to when Personal Travel Budgets (PTB) are paid

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Parent/carer of a child attending a mainstream school

Young person attending a mainstream school

Parent/carer of a child with SEND

Young person attending a SEN school or college

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