Free School Transport Eligibility

Where there is no available walking route to school. The walking route between the home address and school is assessed in accordance with the ‘Leaner Travel (Wales) Measure’ guidelines on the assessment of risk of walked routes to school. 

Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 

Individual transport arrangements may be made where the medical condition of learners either prevents them from making use of the normal transport or the condition prevents them from walking the defined ‘statutory distance’. All applications for assistance on medical grounds must be supported by a medical certificate or signed statement from a medical practitioner which must clearly state that the learner is incapable of walking the specified ‘statutory distance’ to school. Each statement will be subject to a period of review determined by the condition and agreed with the parent/guardian at the time of initial award.

Will be subject to the eligibility criteria, however transport may additionally be provided for learners not meeting this criteria but where the requirement for transport is specified as part of a Statement of Additional Learning Needs issued by the Authority or where a learner is the subject of the statutory assessment procedure, due to learning difficulties, which the Local Authority considers makes transport ‘necessary’.

Assistance will be provided if a learner experiences a change of residence during their GCSE years (after the October half term break of their first year of GCSE studies – year 10) provided the learner meets the criteria on age and distance at the new residence and before the change of residence was attending the nearest or local authority designated school. Transport would be offered only until the end of year 11, on the nearest available vehicle and from the nearest available pick-up point.

Transport will usually be provided should parents choose to send learners to a voluntary aided school on religious grounds and subject to the learner meeting the criteria on age and minimum distance transport and residing not more than 8 miles from the school. Additional arrangements apply for St John Lloyd School, Llanelli – Please contact us for more information - E- mail - learnertravel@carmarthenshire.gov.uk 

If your family has more than one home and at least one of those homes is in Carmarthenshire, you might be eligible for a travel pass for school.

•    Learners must attend the school that is within catchment or nearest suitable school to their main home or the school that s agreed to be the most suitable for the learner.

To check if the learner qualifies for a bus pass, please e- mail - learnertravel@carmarthenshire.gov.uk please remember to include child's full name, dob, family addresses in Carmarthenshire that will form part of the application and school attending.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If the learner has two homes in different local authorities, each authority will be responsible for their travel arrangements when they are living in that area.

The Local Authority cannot currently offer "paying places" on school transport. This is because of rules called the "Public Service vehicle Accessibility Regulations" that Affect how these services operate.