To not feel the slightest bit guilty

No, they really don't. Kids who live in rural or outlying areas do not receive any subsidy for travel unless they are Highlanders.

But if you can cite anything to disprove this, I'm genuinely glad to be educated.

Parents whose children 'actually' go to a selective school and pay for their travel because it's outside their catchment area should cheerfully do so because why? A high-earning professional or hard-working, low-earning individual, it's no more their fault that their child is gifted than that of a parent of a child with additional needs.
It's not, and should never be, a race to the bottom. All children deserve the opportunity to succeed.

I have two disabled children. I always took them to school myself. They preferred it and honestly it felt a little uncomfortable to shove them alone into taxis. In our area the local council is buckling financially under the weight of multiple taxis for so many more children with additional needs. Preposterous amounts. If you can, you should take your children to school yourself.

Are you really comparing faith schools to special schools?

Those who live rurally with no local school are generally entitled to taxis or some kind of transport as well. It doesn't just apply to children with SEN.

Faith and selective schools are both choices and actually selective schools are only a choice for a very small minority of pupils
Special schools are not a choice HTH.

Not everyone has a faith school, a selective school or post-16 provision in their catchment area. Those who live rurally don't even have a catchment area. Take a day off from being a dick.

It’s a one off. Don’t be idiotic.

Not everyone has a faith school, a selective school or post-16 provision in their catchment area. Those who live rurally don't even have a catchment area. Take a day off from being a dick.

Not everyone has a faith school, a selective school or post-16 provision in their catchment area. Those who live rurally don't even have a catchment area. Take a day off from being a dick.

Everyone has a school in their catchment area, sometimes multiple schools. Not everyone has a suitable special needs school in their catchment area. Don't be a dick all your life.

Seconded that the OP enjoyed her duvet day, I hope she manages a few more before winter is out.

For all the people who are quibbling about what children less fortunate than their own are entitled to, obviously begrudging the help some get ... think on.

You may not have a disabled child, and obviously you don't have the empathy to try and imagine how hard that must be, but one day you may have a parent or a partner who needs help for a mental or physical ailment.
I doubt you will be so self righteous then.

How is lying in bed until 3.30 eating Heroes any kind of work?

Exactly. Not only that, but disabled children like to grow up and some semblance of independence, too! If their friends, peers and siblings are taking the bus or walking, why should they be dropped off by mummy?
A PP said parents should take their children to school wherever possible. Really? My daughter had a taxi but only when she was secondary age. I think she’d have protested in none too gentle terms if I had tried to take her.

It’s bizarre that it’s also the “you should be working, even with a disabled child/children” are also the ones saying you should take your child to school yourself, too.
Which jobs do they think this would be compatible with?

Yes people their own rules up at how mobility cars can be used and then get annoyed when they find our they are wrong
One poster tried to justify being annoyed about mobility cars because they too had some kind of disability but didn't meet the criteria for HRM
I would be overjoyed if my son didnt have severe mental impairment.

Exactly.

I have a motability car so I can drive my son to his (mainstream) school, various appointments etc but people complain about that too because it is allowed to be used as a family car or the car is too 'fancy' for their liking.

And if they can people complain about mobility allowance and the motability scheme. Apparently they will also complain about the cost of taxis as if the parent of disabled children are responsible for that. And apparently will complain about a mother of a disabled child having a well deserved rest.

A snide, punitive, society that wants the most meagre existence possible for anyone who isn't exactly the way they think people should be.

Take all the lazy days you can get OP and enjoy the fuck out of them

So would you agree this should be a universal offer? There are many, many disadvantaged people, children and families that don't meet the disability criteria. Free transport for all school and college-aged people, equal holiday packages year-round so those that previously took advantage of 'off-peak' now are accumulated into the £000s a week, subsidised heating, care and respite provision, activity and post-19 education- is that something you would be willing to sacrifice your carer benefits for?

I've always wondered this too.

Even if a person can drive, it's often assumed they can afford to.

I agree tbh
i have a disabled child who went to school in a taxi because I had 2 other children I had to get to school, and a job
i hated it, would have done anything to take him myself
he started doing a club on a Friday so I got one chance to go and pick him up from school, highlight of my week
taxi transport is approximately £140 a day per child just so people know

Good for you OP!!

When I woke up this morning and saw the snow outside I was grimacing at the thought of having to get up and take my youngest son to school.

My eldest son is in secondary and his school doesn't go back until tomorrow, and so this morning he told me to stay in bed and he said that he’d get up and walk his brother to school so that I wouldn’t have to leave the house and go out in the cold. I was sooooooo tempted!!! I didn’t though as I would have felt guilty for making my eldest son go out whilst I stayed home wrappped up in my quilt 🤣

Ignore anyone who is having a pop at you on here for not taking your child to school yourself….if anyone else had offered to take my youngest to school for me (including a taxi coming to pick him up) then I would have bitten their hand off it meant I could have stayed in bed 🤣🤣