Free bus pass

Salford LEA does not operate a free bus pass scheme.

However, if your child attends a special school and has a statement of special educational need, he/she is entitled to a free bus pass from GMPTE.

Students of any age permanently resident in Greater Manchester, with one of the following disabilities, may be also entitled to a GMPTE Free Travel Pass:

registered blind with the local authority
profoundly deaf and without speech that cannot be readily understood by an untrained hearing person
without natural speech and unable to communicate orally
without the use of both arms
with learning difficulties
have been, or would be refused a driving licence on the grounds that they have a severe and enduring mental health problem

The free travel pass provides free travel on buses, trains and Metrolink for all journeys that begin and end in Greater Manchester.

When travelling by bus between Greater Manchester and selected towns in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, Warrington Borough, Blackburn with Darwen Borough or West Yorkshire students can travel at approximately half the full fare for the portion of the journey outside Greater Manchester. Registered Blind pass holders can also travel free when making bus journeys entirely within West Yorkshire.