Paragraph 20 Travel grant—boarding pupils
This paragraph applies in the case of an aided pupil who is a boarder at a school (other than a weekly boarder).
Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the school shall, in respect of each school year, pay travel grant to the parents of an aided pupil attending the school in relation to school travel expenditure reasonably incurred in relation to journeys made by the pupil in that year to or from his home or to visit a parent or guardian or other relative.
The school shall not pay travel grant in respect of more than 12 single journeys by an aided pupil, either to or from the school, in any school year, and in calculating the school travel expenditure:
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;
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—
available train, boat or hovercraft services, and
any available arrangements for reduced or concessionary fares in relation to such services,
the excess shall be disregarded;
where the pupil visits a place other than the pupil’s home (that is to say the place where the pupil normally resides when not at school), and his expenses which exceed the amount which they would have been if the visit had been to his home, the excess shall be disregarded;
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.
In sub-paragraph (3)(d) “Channel Tunnel terminal” means any place where an aided pupil boards a train or bus which goes through the Channel Tunnel.