Some children, even if they wanted to, cannot participate in extracurricular activities, due to the fact that the moving bus from their village leaves twice a day. erstwhile in the morning - to drive students to school, erstwhile in the afternoon - so they can go home. So if they want to join extracurricular interests, they request the aid of parents who could take their children away. However, not everyone has a car at their disposal. Communication exclusion affects more and more people.
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The ombudswoman's intervention. Is there a chance to improve the local transport offer?
"High school students more frequently declare that due to travel problems they cannot participate in extracurricular activities. This applies, for example, to sports activities (6% to 12% in the case of secondary school pupils). Among those at hazard of transport exclusion, access problems are clearly a stronger barrier than for those who are not at risk. Almost 1 in all 5th surveyed at hazard of transport exclusion cannot participate in additional activities due to problems with transport" - says Monika Horna-Cieślak, Spokeswoman of Children's Rights, in his letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure.
The spokeswoman stressed that children and youth affected by communication exclusion do not have the same chances as peers from larger cities. So it is hard for these students to make full usage of their potential. Horna-Cieślak in his speech cites UNICEF Poland's study "Excluding transport of children and young people in Poland". The paper shows that 14 percent of children and young people are at hazard of transport exclusion and 30 percent of students feel that access to collective transport is simply a problem at their place of residence.
Moreover, according to the report, as much as 44 percent of advanced school students chose a facility, were guided by the availability of convenient transport connections, while 21 percent of young people declare that they would have chosen another school if not for transport problems. Close to 1 tenth of the studied student declares that he could not participate in additional classes due to problems with commutes.
"Despite that the Minister liable for transport is not the organiser of public collective transport in road transport, it may indirectly influence the improvement of regional or local transport offer, e.g. by amending the government in the field of road transport" - argued the spokesperson.
People with disabilities and mediocre people are peculiarly susceptible to exclusion
In its letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure, Horna-Cieslik pointed out that there are social groups that are peculiarly susceptible to communication exclusion. They are primarily people who cannot usage individual transport, i.e. children and young people, people with disabilities, but besides those who do not have access to their own car or mediocre people.
