Youth School Transport
Scheme
1. To be eligible for
transport under this scheme a pupil must:
- Be enrolled for an approved course in a recognised post-primary
school.
- Be not less than 12 years of age on or before 1 January
of the school year in which the pupil enters second level
education.
- Have completed sixth standard in a national school or
its equivalent.
- Live 3 miles or more from his/her appropriate post-primary
education centre. The shortest walking route measures
this distance.
2. Eligible pupils may
be transported to the post-primary centre, which caters
for the catchment area in which thy live. (Pupils availing
themselves of such facilities are referred to as "Fully
Eligible Pupils").
3. Where eligible pupils attend school at a
centre other than the post-primary centre, which caters
for the catchment area in which they live, they may
be allowed the concession of transport from the catchment
boundary of the centre attended provided there is room
for them on a bus serving that centre.
4. They are, themselves, responsible for getting
to the catchment boundary. (Basically eligible pupils
availing themselves of such facilities are referred
to as "Catchment Boundary Pupils").
5. Eligible pupils may avail themselves of school
transport under this scheme only on payment of the appropriate
term contribution. Where the parents or legal guardians
of eligible pupils are medical cardholders, they may
be excused the contribution in respect of such children.
6. No special school bus service may be established
unless there is a minimum of 7 eligible pupils within
an area, which can be reasonable and economically served
by a bus route.
7. Special school transport services are organised
as a network of main routes serving each catchment area.
Pupils living off a main route are expected to get,
or e brought, to a convenient pick-up-point on the main
route, Spurs off the main route will not be operated
for such pupils. As a rule, the routes will be planned
so that no pupil will have more than 2 miles to travel
to a pick-up- point.
8. The granting of facilities under thee terms
of this scheme will be at the discretion off the Minister
for Education.
9. The fact that pupils have held transport
facilities contrary to the terms of the scheme in no
way confers on the recipients a continuing right to
the facilities.
Who do I Contact?
Mary McGovern
Tel: (071) 9620024
Email: mflynn@leitrimvec.ie
* N FORM - New Application Form: To
be completed by all new pupils starting Post Primary
School in September.
* E FORM - Existing Application Form:
to be completed by pupils already in the school but
availing of school transport for the first time or pupils
deleted from the requisition.
* T FORM - Transferring Application
Form: To be completed by pupils changing residence or
changing school.
* all forms coming on line soon, please contact office
for forms to be sent to you
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