Taxi drivers hit out at North Lanarkshire Council over home-to-school contracts

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Taxi operators have hit out at North Lanarkshire Council over its handling of payments for home-to-school contracts while schools are off.The Wishaw Press has been contacted by a number of taxi drivers and company bosses angered at the council paying them 20 per cent on the contract rather than 75 per cent.In April, NLC advised operators via Strathclyde Partnership for Transport – which issues contracts on its behalf – that they would be paid 75 per cent of the value of those contracts until June 24 “on the condition that [they] have not accessed alternate national funding programmes” such as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS).One driver, who asked to be named, said: “I have two school contracts so my income has dropped from £1700.