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Councils spent £2.5bn transporting children with special needs to school last year - 70pc rise in a decade and £415m over budget

The 'unsustainable' cost of free school transport has surged by more than 70 per cent in less than a decade - forcing councils to spend £415million more than they had budgeted last year.

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