Bus pass cost for 6th form

But you have to pay for the tram which I find very annoying! Where we live the buses aren't great to get to college so the tram is the best option, so we have to pay. I think it's supposed to be adult fares before 9.30 too, but DD always buys a child ticket and seems to be ok with it...

Not sure if this is relevant to the OP but may be to other posters. There is a 16-19 bursary which provides financial help to facilitate young people staying in full time education. Every P16 provider should have their policy on their website. It is means tested but the earnings required for some help are far higher than with pupil premium/fsm for most areas/providers, and it should be allocated on a sliding scale, so for example if you earn 40 thou, you still may be entitled to a percentage of the bus fare.
The other thing to look out for which I recommend to sixth formers in our area you can get a free bus pass on the month of your birthday!
Again may not be everyone but worth a check.

£3 each way for all bus journeys here in Hampshire, so £6 a day for college, and they’ve cut the buses to 4 a day, some of which frequently either miss out our village, are overcrowded or up to an hour late! The annual pass is £900 but as dd is only in 4 days a week singles work out slightly cheaper.

We pay £500 a term for DS to get mini bus to his school, but a) it’s not catchment so that’s on us and b) it does mean he reliably has a seat and gets to school and back so although more expensive I begrudge it less.

I think they should get free or at least subsidised travel to 6th form, just like school.

Could be worse though I guess, I read an article a few years ago about how there’s no 6th form on the Isles of Scilly and they get no support, it costs families thousands to send kids to board.

£990 for the year here!

It’s about what we’ve paid for y7-11. Same for 6th form. Have you somehow not paid for y7-11?

Bloody hell! Free here for all 16-18 year olds, just the initial £10 fee to get the pass. Not just for use for college either, valid evenings and weekends too all over Greater Manchester

£1,550 for the year.
Do I win?

Ours is £333 per term. It works out cheaper to pay the normal fare weekly.

My daughter is going into the sixth form and we got the school bus free but now we be told we have to pay. The place is now available but it’s £1038 per term or 8 installment of £129.75 which seems a lot of money to get her to school! Not sure how we will afford it to be honest.

Yep-my DC's bus pass is £5.20 per day x190 days.

DD's bus pass is about £700. The other college we are in catchment for is substantially more. Both more than 3 miles away so not really walkable. There are no school 6th forms nearby - our county has put all the provision in massive sixth forms so students are forced to travel further.

It's a lot for every family to find when there is very little help available, and was a big unexpected cost.

My son's is £220 for the term. It works out to £1.70 per journey if he goes in every day of term and gets the bus to and from school. When it was £2 per trip we didn't bother as it wasn't any cheaper (I was picking him up two days each week last term), but now it's £3 per journey it is worth buying.

I do think it's steep for school kids though. Particularly when the Uni students get a far better discount on their bus pass.

Two words for you OP. I expect you know what they are.

Ours check and lots are mean bastards who won't let a kid on theyvsee everybdsy if they've forgotten/lost their pass.

If it was unused by anyone it would be withdrawn! No bus at all. @GoodnightJude1 DCs have always had to pay the bus fares to colleges of FE from 16 so all 16 year olds are the same.

20m no journey for us which takes about 50m. Pass for a term is £475 and for a year is £1150. Daily return is £7.20. This is annoying as the public busses are £2 per journey so £4 a day but don't operate at convenient times or final the way to the school so would increase the daily travel time even further.

£2 per journey, 1 way for mine, dd passed her test in Y13 and took friends, ds, didn’t so I paid £4 a day throughout. It’s probably cheaper than car insurance.

We pay around £640 per year. That's a 15 mile, 40 minute journey each way.

If it’s the same school bus as she was travelling on last year would she be able to just wait at the stop and get on as usual. The school specials where I live don’t check passes

18 years ago I paid £300 for the school bus for a year to 6th form college …….it’s now 550£ …..it takes around 25 mins

that's 1£ per journey, which is quite reasonable I would say.

or the price of a bike...

but yeah, unexpected expenses suck.

Essex here - DS’s bus pass was £425 this term. Slightly cheaper in the shorter terms but it equates to over £1k a year. I’ll have child 2 starting secondary next year so double that… 😭

Ouch 😫. First thing I thought was 'but it's free?!?' In greater Manchester all 16-18 yo's can get a free bus pass for a one off £10 admin fee. Lasts the two years of sixth form and covers all of GM.

DD has a Tiger bus pass that we got recently, it’s a free pass from our local council that means she can use any bus for £1 per journey

Ah I wish our council did that. Buses are so expensive now. We always seem to be paying for buses here there and everywhere for 16 and 14 year olds.