North Yorkshire home-to-school buses: get on with it

Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can get access to all of our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Putting in place safeguards for those children attending schools at high elevation is clearly a matter of safety, and is eminently sensible. The second amendment relating to council-contracted services would appear to any right-minded person to be a no-brainer of a pragmatism and the third proposal relating to children whose nearest suitable school is outside of North Yorkshire would appear to be steeped in fairness. On another day, though, another group of people might propose yet another clutch of amendments that, too, amount to fettling of a sensible kind. Nobody has the monopoly on good ideas, etc. Meanwhile, nothing gets done and the families of those impacted continue to be burdened by the worrisome contemplations of quite how family life will work in the event this cannot be resolved. With all due respect, the predilection of politicians to tinker where tinkering is unnecessary is well known, but if any more fiddling is done on the matter, Rome will erupt in flames. What needs to be understood is that each tinker amounts to a taunt for the families for whom this issue has already caused deep anxiety. It is high time a solution that gets all children to and from school safely, fairly and affordably was put in place. The decision-makers on this one already have a late mark against their names, yet the home-to-school exam is a test they must not fail.