The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997

Travel grant—weekly boarding pupils

6.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of an assisted pupil who is a weekly boarder at a school.

(2) Where the school is not within walking distance of the pupil’s home, the school shall, in each school year and subject to paragraph (3), pay travel grant to the parents of the pupil in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in respect of journeys made by the pupil between home and school in that year.

(3) In calculating the school travel expenditure—

(a) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys in excess of 80 kilometres each way by such transport as is mentioned in regulation 3, the school shall take into account only the following proportion of the expenses, that is the proportion that 80 kilometres bears to the length in kilometres of the journey in question; and

(b) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by public transport and exceed the expenses that would have been incurred if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for season tickets or reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded.

(4) In this regulation and in regulation 7, “walking distance” means—

(a) in relation to a pupil who has not attained the age of 8 years, 3.2 kilometres, and

(b) in relation to a pupil who has attained that age, 4.8 kilometres,

in each case measured by the nearest available route.