NatEx to run school services of defunct CTO
Birmingham City Council has handed ‘the majority’ of its home-to-school transport services left high and dry by the collapse of the Accessible...
Wales TC allows S19/22 contract competition
Welsh Traffic Commissioner Nick Jones has renewed Section 19/22 permits for a South Wales community transport operator which has operated tendered...
Councils bail out 600-vehicle community bus operator
Administrators of Accessible Transport Group Limited, Ring and Ride West Midlands Limited and ATG Contract Services Limited, have secured new funding...
Section 19 overhauled?
The DfT has announced a review of the Section 19/22 permit system this year, while launching its new guidance on using permits. Announcing the...
Cambs CTOs still breaching rules
An audit of the finances of a community transport scheme has discovered little separation between commercial and ‘not for profit’ operations....
An open letter to Lilian Greenwood MP
Dear Mrs Greenwood, I was a keen observer of the Transport Select Committee debate on Community Transport, focused on the use of Section 19 and 22...
CTOs: the care sector, not transport sector
This could have been anticipated but CTOs are in the care sector, not the transport sector, and should have been better advised by their supporting...
Section 19: Transport Select Committee report recommends change
Main conclusions: Re-examination of local authority grant aid for CT sector DfT to publish details of S19 permits issued, and those used for public...