Subject: Education - Travel to/from school

Transport challenges resolved for siblings placed in different schools

Education - Travel to/from schoolEngland

April 21, 2026

Siblings placed in different schools following a Service relocation, creating transport and timing challenges. What was the situation? Upon a Service family’s move to a new area in England, for Service reasons, the two siblings were placed in different schools with different catchment areas. One of the school locations exceeded the statutory walking distance. The […]

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Education case studies: Travel to/from school

Education - Travel to/from school

August 1, 2024

Amending the school’s transport policy In response to a 2015 decision by the (then-named) Local Government Ombudsman, a council committed to improving its practice by: making sure officers and panels identify at an early stage if the Covenant is relevant to an application; amending its school transport policy to stress that the list of examples […]

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