SCHOOL CONTRACTS
Mr W: Suffolk Suffolk county council is paying operators 100% of school contracts
D H: Waste of council tax money private compa- nies profits from the public not good is it when councils are cutting back on other services I’m not getting anything being self employed so why should a firm get it
D F: Somerset In Somerset when it all started we got told we had to pay full rent before they would pay us the contract so most of us have had to hand our cars back but the office is get- ting all the money and it should come to us
S W: Hull Hull City Council paying zero as they reckon the contracts are temporary
G W: Stirling Stirling Council paying 100% end of con- tracts in June. Well done Stirling
D A: Surprised councils are paying anything unless legally bound to
T W: Kent Kent County Council were paying 50% rate for 4 weeks until yesterday, hopefully we'll find out soon if they will carry on paying it
S S: Dorset Dorset council are also paying 100% with drivers being paid out of that until June, I believe
A A B: What about the drivers? Are the bosses of the bases gonna share this fund with drivers or they keeping it to themselves????????
D L: BCP BCP Council (Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole) are paying for both school and day centre contracts
P T: Salford are paying 100% till end of June
C C: South Ayrshire council paying 75% so can’t really complain
J T:West Lothian West Lothian Council are paying 80% but company is only paying out half minus 25%
L M: Any council that does not pay 80% should lose all contractors when schools go back think they had their funding in January from
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government - but do correct me if I'm wrong
G D: Caerphilly Caerphilly council paying 75%
S G: Perth & Kinross Perth & Kinross Council paying 100%
T Taxi: Gwynedd Gwynedd are paying 75%.
M H: Bath Our council in Bath has paid our company but they won't pay us
I H: Kent Kent county council paid 50%
P K: It’s not down to individual councils, it's a government initiative. (Supplier relief due to covid-19 in accordance with procurement policy note 02/20) All councils should be doing the same. Average contract amount for the three months of Dec, Jan & Feb…
J W: Devon Devon County Council are paying 100% and have made it very clear that if companies are holding that money back from the drivers they will take the run away from that company and any others they may have as well. Devon have even gone so far as to email every driver who has a DCC schools badge and tell them they are entitled to 100% as well.
S W: Kirklees Kirklees Council need to get their Uber driv- er's under control. They have no right to be travelling to York. That's definitely UNNEC- ESSARY travel.
M R: Nottingham Does anyone have any information on Not- tingham City Council paying firms for school contracts.
Z K: Most councils are paying because govern- ment has given them extra money to deal with Covid-19.
S H: Ours have sent out new terms you have to prove you have been paid otherwise all the money has to be paid back and lose the contract.
A S: Solihull Had Solihull bases here doing the same. Tc cars, local cars and ecars. Some hadn’t been paid from council fair enough. But lying to the drivers is not on. But council paying 65% which will leave the driver with
peanuts once the operators take their own cut
K C: Nottingham Nottingham City Council have not paid any Companies for April. This is despite some companies already paying drivers and not furloughing escorts for the period. And against government guidelines to pay con- tractors.
R S:
Speaking to my drivers they are getting over £3k for self employment from the Govt plus universal credit and still working. Its gravy gravy gravy unless you didn't declare your income.
A S: Generally speaking, Need something in place at council. As operators do intimi- date or bully the drivers. So to complain and investigate companies who act wrong- fully. And vice versa obviously they are quick to suspend drivers’ licences. Drivers need to unite and have a backing of a PH union.
The NPHTA conducted one of its now- famous surveys during last month, both amongst members and amongst County Councils and district councils responsible for school contracts. Frankly very few responses were received; it’s early days yet, and hopefully we’ll be able to bring you some more responses in July PHTM.
As always, we welcome any and all views and reactions from PHTM readers, NPHTA members and council officers once you’ve read this article. Certainly it is a position which – once again – cannot be standard- ised across the entire country, as each individual authority is responsible for its own contract procurement and mainte- nance procedures.
However, we would raise the question as to how many of those councils have actually taken on board the advice under PPN 02/20 and adhered to those principles. Further, the lack of reaction from operators suggests that this is a rather touchy sub- ject, putting it mildly – and one which they would just as soon not discuss in a public forum.
Fair enough. It remains to be seen what the outcome will be once the schools reopen and contractual arrangements are expect- ed to resume. It is hoped that everyone concerned will remain safe and well, and that our industry is not permanently dam- aged in this extremely important and lucrative branch of taxi and private hire transport.
JUNE 2020
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