School Parking

[icemelting]

School has recently implanted a policy meaning that once all the spaces are full, the gates are closed to prevent double parking and car abandonment. Fine except that the number of cars allowed in includes the amount for disabled parking meaning that non blue badges are taking those spaces too.

Both my son (who attends the school and has a wheelchair) and husband have blue badges but are unable to park in the car park now unless they arrive half an hour early which is impossible as there are other children to take to a different school first.

Aibu to want them to be able to park in the car park?

Any ideas how to approach this with the head?

I would just go in and speak to the head they should be able to come up with a plan reasonably.

From what I understand, there is no way of enforcing this on private land without using some sort of parking company, and they are no obliged to provide blue badge spaces. However, morally that is awful and frustrating. Can you send an email/letter yo the head and chair of governors explaining your frustration and the inconvenience that it causes to your child.

Is this for drop off? Speak to the head and ask why they don't have a one out one in policy for the carpark. My dc are grown up now but at their school the set up was drive in, remove child from car, leave carpark

Speak to the Head. The primary mine attend have a similar set up, but they don't include the BB spaces

The person who closes the gates also opens them at a set time for two specific cars so they can access the BB spaces

Is this for drop off? Speak to the head and ask why they don't have a one out one in policy for the carpark. My dc are grown up now but at their school the set up was drive in, remove child from car, leave carpark

They might not be able to do that without the risk of people making a queue on the road outside. That's why none of the schools here have that now.

They have a walking bus from the supermarket instead and less than a dozen first-come-first-served spaces. They do keep the BB spaces free though

If they have a way (person) to monitor when all the spaces are full then they should also be able to monitor that only eligible vehicles use the disabled badge spaces...

You need to ask the head to ensure that whoever is counting car in only counts the number equal to non-disabled spaces, then the BB spaces separately. As someone above said, if someone is actively monitoring the carpark, they can also monitor the BB spaces.
Hopefully you'll appeal to her / his common sense and they'll implement something. Good luck!

Thank you :) head can be tricky to get hold of, will put it in writing I think