Maldon district: Mums furious at bus changes

4:00pm Wednesday 12th September 2012 in News By Emma Robinson

Michelle Bowman with daughter Georga Michelle Bowman with daughter Georga

A furious mother has been left reeling after a changes to school buses could cost her her job.

Michelle Bowman, 41, of Orchard Drive, Mayland, is up in arms after her daughter is no longer allowed on the school bus because she does not live in the catchment area.

Instead Mrs Bowman, a clerical assistant, now picks her child up from school every afternoon.

She said: “The only other bus my daughter can get home is nearly an hour after school finishes.

“I don’t want her hanging around in Maldon for an hour, especially now the nights are getting darker.

“It could definitely affect my work.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous that they have deliberately taken away a service that so many people rely on.”

The D3 bus which took the public to and from Mayland and the school campus has been cut by Essex County Council .

See this week's MBS for the full story.

Comments(2)

cavillas says...
4:16pm Wed 12 Sep 12

This is disgusting in this day and age but as usual the council thinks it knows better than the people who elect them. As a temporary measure is it not possible for this mum to negotiate some flexible working hours with her company, after all this is a legal requirement that companies should offer such a thing.

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paultheuver1 says...
7:59pm Wed 12 Sep 12

If you qualify, you have a legal right to ask for flexible working hours but there is no obligation on a company to offer or permit this. The relevant information can be found here:-
http://www.direct.go
v.uk/en/Employment/E
mployees/Flexiblewor
king/DG_10029491
Mrs Bowman's situation is a classic example of Government rhetoric failing to deliver. We have the Right Honourable Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education, promoting the right to send our children to the school of our choice. Yet the Conservative led Essex County Council are unable to deliver this locally.
People should be wary of what comes out of a politicians mouth, because as this shows us, talk is cheap.

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