I am really pleased to be able to report that the appeal lodged by 13 families in Acton against Suffolk County Council's proposal to charge for school transport has been successful. How even the most determined of bureaucrats can have thought that it was appropriate for young children, accompanied or not, should have to walk for almost three miles along a clearly unsafe route is beyond me.
Congratulations to all the parents concerned, particularly to Alan Sawyer, who made an excellent case to the Committee.