{"id":3353,"date":"2022-02-04T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:33:48","slug":"scottish-government-free-bus-travel-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/2022\/02\/04\/scottish-government-free-bus-travel-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Government Free Bus Travel Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Free bus travel is available to all pupils aged 5 and over from 31 January 2022 and can be accessed via the National Entitlement Card.\u00a0 We have been working with Customer Services as parents have a choice of applying for a new card via the school system or they can go directly to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/enigma.east-ayrshire.gov.uk:32224\/?dmVyPTEuMDAxJiY5ZmIxYTFmOWIxNGUzNjhhNT02MURENTYyMF83MzQxXzE0NDI3XzEmJjVmZWYyZmVhOGY3MTUzOT0xMjIyJiZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZnZXR5b3VybmVjJTJFc2NvdCUyRm5lYyUyRg==\">https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 If they go through the NEC website, \u00a0parents will require to validate both their identity and that of their child.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The other option is for them to apply for a National Entitlement Card \u00a0\/ Kidz Kard via the school.\u00a0 This option assumes that both the parent\u2019s and child\u2019s identity has been validated and simplifies the process the parents. Please go to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKXMO8m7AXHVKum4OtqEgHVVUMEdIM0lWWjJIV1FYRkJIQkdBTTVaQk0yNy4u\">NEC Application Form 1 for pupils aged 5 to 10 years old<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKXMO8m7AXHVKum4OtqEgHVVURDNHSFhFQTJPMzZUU0xQTU40VlBET1ZYNy4u\">NEC Application Form 2 for pupils aged 11 to 15 years old<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Due to the current COVID mitigations we will only accept application forms from pupils who require to undertake essential travel at this time, <span style=\"color: #000000\">but we will leave the forms open on school website\/app to allow parents to apply at a time that is suitable for them.\u00a0 All forms will be processed when the mitigations are eased and we are able to travel freely.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free bus travel is available to all pupils aged 5 and over from 31 January 2022 and can be accessed via the National Entitlement Card.\u00a0 We have been working with Customer Services as parents have a choice of applying for a new card via the school system or they can go directly to https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/.\u00a0 If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/2022\/02\/04\/scottish-government-free-bus-travel-scheme\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scottish Government Free Bus Travel Scheme<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}