School buses guarantee
All school bus routes not let to pßivate tender will continue to be provided by the Education Department for the next three years says the Minister of Education, Mr Marshall. The Education Department runs 709 of the 2400 daily school bus services throughout the country. All are paid for by the Government. Over the next three years those services still run by the department will be tendered for private contract. “I realise that a sizeable number of the departmental services, perhaps as many as half,
may be difficult to secure private contracts for,” said Mr Marshall. However, the Government was committed to continue to provide school transport assistance. Therefore, while education boards were tendering the routes over the next three years, the department would guarantee them. During that time the Government will also make three progress reviews — one after the first tendering round (in about three or four months), one at the end of 1988, and one at the end of the three years (mid--1990).
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Press, 15 July 1987, Page 3
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