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  Hi Howard, not necessarily - because young people now HAVE to stay at school or go into formal training programmes until they are 18 - no more parental or child discretion - parents in Kent asked KCC to extend the existing Freedom Pass Scheme to all young people up to the age of 18. KCC, in their wisdom, decided to extend a limited Freedom Pass scheme to the 16-18 yr olds (basically a term of travel for £100 before reverting to normal bus fares for the rest of the school year), but in return for this limited extension the scheme for Under 16 yr olds would become limited (basically two terms of travel for £100 before these children would have to start paying full bus fare). These changes, whilst providing limited new benefits for our 16-18 year olds, would have screwed the parents of a very large number of under 16 year olds forcing a significant number of poorer parents to have to change their children's secondary schools to ones which they did not want their children to attend. By reversing this decision to provide the limited extension to 16-18 year olds and restoring the scheme in full to the under sixteens, KCC are not saving any money on the scheme, but then it is not costing any more either.

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