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Parents Pockets Hit Again

2.15.53pm GMT Tue 7th Feb 2006

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Bad news for parents

Surrey County Council's Tory budget brought bad news for parents and youngsters in Sixth Forms and Colleges.

The innovative and popular "Student Card" scheme that allows sixteen to eighteen year olds staying on in education to continue paying child fares is to be "abandoned". Free transport for the most disadvantaged is also to be abolished.

"This was an excellent scheme backed up by a good website", commented Diana Smith, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Schools and Communities. "Losing it will limit our young people's choices, and may even mean some do not go to College at all,"

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