The Education (Assisted Places) (Incidental Expenses) Regulations 1997

Travel grant—boarding pupils

5.—(1) This regulation applies in the case of an assisted pupil who is a boarder at a school (other than a weekly boarder).

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the school shall, in respect of each school year, pay travel grant to the parents of an assisted pupil attending the school in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in respect of journeys made by the pupil in that year to or from his home or to visit a parent or guardian or other relative.

(3) The school shall not pay travel grant in respect of more than 12 single journeys by an assisted pupil, either to or from the school, in any school year, and in calculating the school travel expenditure—

(a) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys made by public transport and exceed the expenses that would have been incurred if advantage had been taken of available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares, the excess shall be disregarded;

(b) where a pupil’s expenses are in respect of journeys by air and exceed the expenses that would have been incurred if advantage had been taken of—

(i) available train, boat or hovercraft services, and

(ii) any available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares in relation to such services, the excess shall be disregarded;

(c) where the pupil visits a place other than his home, and his expenses exceed the amount which they would have been if the visit had been to his home, the excess shall be disregarded; and

(d) where a visit is to a place outside the British Islands, so much of the expenses as are in respect of a journey between a port, hoverport, airport or Channel Tunnel terminal within the British Islands and that place shall be disregarded.

(4) In paragraph (3)(d) “Channel Tunnel terminal” means any place where an assisted pupil boards a train or bus which goes through the Channel Tunnel.