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Government must ensure fairness on free school transport |
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COMMENTING on today’s decision by
Assembly Members to extend new rules on free school transport to faith based
schools but not pupils in Welsh medium education, Welsh Conservative AM Alun
Cairns
said:
“I very much welcome the committee’s
decision to enshrine the rights of pupils in faith schools in this new
legislation."
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Archbishop of Wales joins calls to amend measure |
Welsh Conservative AM Alun Cairns today welcomed support from the Archbishop of Wales to give pupils and faith and Welsh medium schools the same right to free transport as those elsewhere in the state sector.
In a letter to Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones, the Most Reverend Dr Barry Morgan says he shares the concerns of AMs that some schools could be excluded from new regulations proposed in the Learner Travel Measure.
The committee scrutinising the proposals is due to meet in the National Assembly tomorrow.
Alun Cairns, wrote to the Transport Minister to express concern over the Measure which he claims currently discriminates against children attending faith and Welsh medium schools.
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Pupils to miss out on improved school bus safety |
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Thousands of pupils could miss out
on the right to free school transport because they attend a faith or Welsh
medium school, Welsh Conservatives
warned today.
Alun Cairns AM has written to
Transport Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones to voice concerns over the Learner Travel
Measure which he claims discriminates against faith and Welsh medium schools,
and denies pupils the same rights as those educated in the state
sector.
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