North Yorkshire councillors have called for an ongoing review of the “deeply flawed” home-to-school transport appeals process. The council has faced criticism for the way parents’ appeals over the refusal of free school transport have been handled. Advertisement Hide AdAdvertisement Hide AdCoun Arnold Warneken has proposed that the authority’s scrutiny committee for children and families review the appeals process as the hearings take place. Advertisement Hide AdAdvertisement Hide AdCoun Andy Brown said “It is quite wrong to delay reviewing a crude and clumsy policy for a year. “We need to start improving this deeply flawed home-to-school transport policy in North Yorkshire and we need to start now.”Council bosses have defended the policy, which means free school transport is only available to a child’s nearest school, and the appeals process.