{"id":16283,"date":"2022-02-01T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/?p=16283"},"modified":"2022-02-01T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:16:01","slug":"free-bus-travel-5-21-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/2022\/02\/01\/free-bus-travel-5-21-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE BUS TRAVEL \u2013 5-21 YEAR OLDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To access the scheme, young people need to apply for a new entitlement card.<\/p>\n<p>5 to 10-year-olds will use a junior card which does not require a photograph and those aged 11 and over will use an updated Young Scot card \u2013 which is also a photo identity and proof of age card.<\/p>\n<p>New cards can be applied for using the website below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/parentsportal.scot\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ParentsPortal.Scot<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 This is an additional online national portal that allows parents of children aged between 5 and 10-years-old to apply for the \u2018Junior\u2019 version of the National Entitlement Card.\u00a0 This is the quickest way for parents to access the junior card for their children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The usual process of delivering Young Scot cards to Primary 7s will take place in March and April 2022 and this year will include a consent process to allow access to the free travel scheme too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To access the scheme, young people need to apply for a new entitlement card. 5 to 10-year-olds will use a junior card which does not require a photograph and those aged 11 and over will use an updated Young Scot card \u2013 which is also a photo identity and proof of age card. New cards &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/2022\/02\/01\/free-bus-travel-5-21-year-olds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FREE BUS TRAVEL \u2013 5-21 YEAR OLDS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66961],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16284,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16283\/revisions\/16284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/cochrane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}