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    Il Comune ha speso 72.158 sterline in taxi scolastici per un alunno in un anno

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    1. order-of-magnitude-1 on

      How would I go about getting one of these council contracts?

    2. Pale_Slide_3463 on

      How? Petrol, insurance and drivers pay wouldn’t even amount up to that at all

    3. TwentyCharactersShor on

      So, the cost for 20 kids to school is £600k at least, in ONE council. And people wonder why this country is fucked.

      We need some better options for kids. This amount on travel alone is crazy.

    4. ReligiousGhoul on

      Whilst I have individual gripes with the SEND programmes, it’s clear as day there is almost inconceivable levels of corruption.

      Fucking hell, £72,000 for a 5 mile trip 5 days a week, no doubt a relative of someone on the board.

    5. Legitimate-Leg-4720 on

      I heard from a taxi driver who regularly takes a special needs pupil across London to school, apparently there’s always a member of staff accompanying him and after hearing a few stories I can understand why. The pupil can get very aggressive, hitting, punching, spitting etc.

    6. donotcallmemike on

      nationalise it.

      bring the staff in house and local authority vehicles and someone who is a transport planner optimising the routes.

    7. O-bot54 on

      Reword that , corrupt council abuses mates rates with a freinds taxi company to abuse tax payer funds .

    8. RumJackson on

      Pay me half that and I’d drive a lad 5 miles twice a day Monday to Friday. 

    9. Pristine-Net-1977 on

      I’m going to put aside the debate about whether or not it’s even worth spending this money (I don’t think it is). But, it doesn’t seem that unreasonable a price.

      5 days a week at 45 weeks a year is about £320. Split between 2 journeys a day both at rush hour and maybe take into consideration the taxi may have to have special alterations, and it really doesn’t seem that surprising.

      Obviously, they are getting RINSED, but I feel like there are way more egregious examples than this of the government literally burning money.

    10. UuusernameWith4Us on

      I’ve googled this to try understand why it’s happening and one of the top results was this website run by parents of disabled kids calling this out as unnecessary and wasteful:

      https://www.specialneedsjungle.com/send-transport-law/#Needlessly_expensive_transport_arrangements

      Think about this from the perspective of a parent of a disabled kid. The money available to support them and their kids is limited; it must be so frustrating for them to see so much money wasted like this when they could probably tell you half a dozen ways it could be better spent.

    11. hime-633 on

      Kids should be able to get to school. Special SEND schools are often far from where the kids live. So providing transport is reasonable.

      What is not reasonable is the clearly inflated cost and apparent lack of bargaining skills by the council.

      Don’t demonise the SEND child; scrutinise the taxi firm’s quote and the council’s decision to eat it.

    12. LingonberryNo3548 on

      It is madness to pay more money in a single year for travel to school than these kids will ever contribute in tax. We justify the cost of schooling for a regular kid because they will pay it back through tax. A lot of these kids will never work and will always be a drain. If parents can’t get their kids to school then they aren’t fit to parent them and they should be put into a care facility.

    13. ShufflingToGlory on

      Always wary of jumping to conclusions about stories like this without seeing detailed financial breakdowns.

    14. JS-Labs on

      This is literally every council, Ask your taxi drivers. It happens all over. Some taxis are taking kids to school like 2 hour journeys every single day there and back. Its not just disabled kids, Its kids where they cant find places for them in other schools but they have a duty of care, naughty kids going to completely different areas that are hours away all been transported by taxi.

    15. NoDG_ on

      More corruption and mismanagement from Reform. They’re going to ruin this country.

    16. dazrog on

      If this is anything like the similar case in East Sussex, it turned out that it wasn’t a taxi, it was a full private ambulance with two paramedics and a nurse on board or something similar.

    17. Mundane_Lobster4145 on

      Welcome to labour, absalute joke. Reform all the way.

    18. Jesisawesome on

      Read this number.

      Read it again.

      Think about how much tax you paid this year – just income tax – and how many hours you have had to work to pay for this.

      Now think about what you would have done if you had been able to keep the money, and been asked to solve this problem.

      An idea might be – buy a car, and pay someone for an hour or two a day to drive it.

      They don’t give a shit about you. None of them give a shit about you – Reform, Labour, Tory – none of them. You are a resource and a tool. That’s it.

    19. iKaine on

      I’d do that job and have a glass of champagne ready for the parents at pick up and drop off…

    20. iamezekiel1_14 on

      They are effectively having to pay for 2 x members of staff (Driver + Chaperone) + Transport & the associated costs + the appropriate levels of vetting and checks. It seems borderline high but not excessively so. Also that will be a contract for both for that year e.g. they don’t suddenly become unemployed during School Holidays. Seems like the paper is trying to take a round the houses shot at the disabled and most likely the Council?

    21. llamaz314 on

      For £72,000 a year you could pay me to chauffeur him around full time.

    22. D1789 on

      This is why our taxes keep going up guys.

      Millions of scenarios like this each and every day where the cost is substantially higher than it should be.

    23. No-Beat2678 on

      Think about it a child in an electric wheelchair is going to need:

      Q taxi or vehicle big enough to fit in and turn around in. Some of the wheelchairs are huge. Especially if they need oxygen to literally keep them alive.

      And if the CHILD whose legs do not work shits themselves on the way to school what do you expect them to do about it? Fucking Mr Ahmed is going to clean them up. And how will they know how to keep them alive while they’re sorting them sort.

      You expect the random taxi driver will know what to do if something happens to said child.

      There will be dodgy cases for sure, but I don’t think a lot of you know how I’ll.akd vulnerable these children can be

    24. JJLuckless on

      In this thread:

      People that have no understanding of how much it costs to take care of disabled people on a large scale.

      People who have no idea how bare bones the support services for disabled people are in this country.

      People who are happy to disparage and play down the struggles of disabled people having never experienced anything of the sort.

      People who see disabled people as a drain and don’t have any humanity.

      Hopefully it’s all bots because the views are disgraceful.

    25. Icy-Professor3187 on

      We paid for the son of Katie price and Dwight Yorke to travel 80 miles each way by taxi twice a day.

      That’s a household name celeb and a premier League footballer.

      We have to start getting real on welfare or we’re totally fucked as a nation.

      First up: stop obsessing over billionaires. Endlessly lusting over their wealth will achieve nothing.

    26. Repulsive_Bus_7202 on

      The article doesn’t mention what requirements the learner had. Was it an adapted or specialist vehicle to allow a power chair to be transported?

    27. ExcellentHunter on

      I can do this full time. Will even pay for fuel from my own pocket!

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