{"id":1743,"date":"2022-01-07T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:06:28","slug":"free-bus-travel-for-young-people-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/2022\/01\/07\/free-bus-travel-for-young-people-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Free bus travel for young people in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Primary<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The Parents Portal can be used to apply for a card for primary children between the ages of\u00a0<b>5 and 10 inclusive<\/b>\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 This is the easiest and quickest way to apply.<\/li>\n<li>Cards can also be applied for online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Just like the current process, application forms for Young Scot cards with travel can be made through the school.\u00a0 The new application form is attached.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/files\/2022\/01\/Young-Persons-Free-Bus-Travel-Scheme-Customer-Service-Toolkit-Jan2022.pdf\">Young Person&#8217;s Free Bus Travel Scheme &#8211; Customer Service Toolkit &#8211; Jan2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/files\/2022\/01\/New-Young-Scot-school-form-2021-1.docx\">New Young Scot school form 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0January, all children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years will be eligible for free bus travel within Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Children and young people will be able to access free bus travel on registered bus services across Scotland including a very limited number of local cross-border services from the south of Scotland into northern England.<\/p>\n<h3>How will young people obtain free bus travel?<\/h3>\n<p>Children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years old will need to apply for a National Entitlement Card (Young Scot Card).\u00a0 Their existing card will not work, they will need to apply for a new one.<\/p>\n<p>The card has an electronic chip inside it. When entering a bus, the driver will ask them to tap the card against a card reader. The card reader will tell the bus driver if the child has free bus travel enabled on their card.<\/p>\n<p>Children under 16 years old will need their parent\/carer to apply on their behalf and provide approval for free bus travel to be enabled on their child\u2019s card.<\/p>\n<p>Young people aged 16 years and over will be able to apply for free bus travel themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Children under 5 years old can already travel on buses for free. They will not need a to apply for a card.<\/p>\n<h3>When can parents\/carers or young people apply for free bus travel?<\/h3>\n<p>Applications will open on 10 January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>All children and young people between the age of 5 to 15 will be required to get parental or carers consent to have free bus travel added to their card.\u00a0\u00a0<u>Please note this is not school transport. <\/u>The free bus travel is for the public bus network only.<\/p>\n<p>Young people 16 years or older can apply for a new Young Scot card themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update Primary The Parents Portal can be used to apply for a card for primary children between the ages of\u00a05 and 10 inclusive\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 This is the easiest and quickest way to apply. Cards can also be applied for online at\u00a0https:\/\/getyournec.scot\/nec\/. Just like the current process, application forms for Young Scot cards with travel can&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/2022\/01\/07\/free-bus-travel-for-young-people-in-scotland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free bus travel for young people in Scotland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calderwood-community","category-information-for-parents-carers","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/calderwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}