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To: The Blue School and Somerset County Council
The Blue School Wells Bus Service
To recognise the need for the Blue School and Somerset County Council school transport to help administer a reliable, parent funded and commercially viable bus service to transport pupils from West Pennard, North Wootton, Pilton and Shepton Mallet to and from the Blue School in Wells each day.
Why is this important?
Somerset County Council have just cut fee paying seats on school transport from West Pennard / North Wootton to The Blue School. This causes great difficulty for many families who now have to all make alternate arrangements to get their children to school each day. Also, in 2018 the public transport provider First Bus cancelled a service which had been transporting at least 30 children to and from Shepton Mallet to Wells. The remaining public bus service to school is much later and is often delayed in the morning, making children late for school. It also now sees them waiting over an hour in Wells for their bus home.
