Issue - meetings

That the retender and award of 14 Home to School Transport contracts for large capacity coaches be approved.

The Executive considered a report relating to the proposed retendering and awarding of 14 home to school transport contracts for large capacity coaches.

The Executive Member for Finance introduced the report and explained that the Council had a duty to provide home to school transport, the current contracts for which would expire on 2 September 2019.  The only change that was being proposed to the current provision was an increase in coach capacity which would enable those parents who chose to go to a school that was not necessarily their designated catchment school to buy relatively inexpensive travel for their children, thereby giving them more school choice. 

RESOLVED: That the retender and award of 14 Home to School Transport contracts for large capacity coaches be approved.