A PUBLIC consultation into contentious proposed changes to home to school transport in Warwickshire has been extended. Reform’s WCC leader Coun George Finch wrote to education secretary Bridget Phillipson, seeking permission to revise rules that govern pupils’ eligibility for free home-to-school transport. Allowing councils to set their own rules over statutory walking distances, he wrote, would save them money. Statutory walking distances are the rules, set by government, that decide how far a child must live from their school before they are eligible for free home to school transport. “These proposed changes are an important step toward creating a more sustainable and consistent approach to home to school transport across Warwickshire.