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Ministerial Review of the Private Vehicle Conveyance Scheme
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, the Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport John Watkins released the Interim Report of the Hon Harry Woods Review of the Private Vehicle Conveyance (PVC) Scheme in NSW.
A copy of the PVC Review Interim Report is available here - 421 kb PDF.
The objective of the review is to identify concerns regarding current practice within the PVC Scheme and to examine potential and practical solutions. The aims of the review are to:
- Make the PVC subsidy more equitable, transparent, administratively simple;
- Reduce the risk of overpayments;
- Review the rationale, payment model and procedures; and
- Make the subsidy more sustainable.
In preparing this Interim Report, the Hon Harry Woods undertook consultations with various community stakeholders (school representatives, parent representatives and bus organisations) and received 18 written submissions. These submissions proposed a number of changes most of which have been adopted wholly or partially into the recommendations.
The Interim Report makes 15 recommendations which provide a framework for improvements to the PVC scheme for the people of NSW.
The key recommendations of the Interim Report include:
- Payments calculated by family instead of by student;
- Abolition of the 300 km cap;
- Payment on the basis of an audited average school attendance rate;
- Abolishing the requirement that travel be solely for transporting the child to education, as long as all other eligibility is met; and
- Expansion of the number of subsidised trips for distance education students;
Comments on the Interim Report closed on Friday 23 May 2008.
The Report will be finalised in the second half of 2008. Any changes should become effective from the beginning of the second school semester in July 2009.
