The payment of travelling expenses (this might include the reimbursement of bus or train fares, or a petrol or cycling allowance at a rate determined by the Authority)

Family may transport pupils, some councils offer support for this, 25p per loaded mile



http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/educati ... /home.aspx

Thanks for that just checking another way of councils eroding work to contract drivers

Im sure this item will have been listed before but would like the Legal Eagels
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I was speaking to a fellow driver last night and she told me the transport section of the council have cut her contract to transport students to a special school

Removing a girl who is now taken by her Grandfather in his private Car and they now pay him direct Is this legal

I think it's happening more and more.

If they pay more than 40p a mile then the volunteer scam becomes illegal.

Only if the vehicle is entirely used for this purpose would this be considered the true cost of motoring expenses.

Once you remove standing charges and depreciation, less depreciation attributed to the mileage, then 25p is nearer the mark.

Simply do the maths from the rac doc you posted. Actually the AA do a better more accurate one.

To your fuel add tyres, servicing, maintenance. £1500 plus about £100 for the increase insurance premium to allow you to be paid, gets you another 13p.

Council also has to consider how pupil gets to school when grandad is ill or car breaks down, but if grandad can cover that then nothing to stop grandad tripling that 25 p and tendering for the contract anyway.

As skippy points out you don't need a license to do a contract