Bus chaperone petition handed in at Shire Hall

Members of the Save our School Bus Passenger Transport Assistants group had set up a petition against Warwickshire County Council’s decision to axe the chaperones as a money saving measure, and almost 7,000 people backed the campaign

The council has already performed a U-turn on its decision with Cllr Heather Timms (Con, Earl Craven), the county councillor responsible for policy on children, young people and families, announcing that the authority had been able to make the £1.4 million saving from the school transport programme through other measures.

Campaigners were still keen to show the strength of feeling against the decision in case the issue were ever to surface again and parent Caroline Adams presented the petition to the councillors at the authority’s headquarters on Tuesday morning.