Campaigning mother Lynne Miller is determined in her battle to win cheaper travel for young people to keep down costs to continue their education.

She has a son Mitchell Morris, 16, about to go in to the sixth form at a Sandwich Secondary School and a daughter Jessica Morris, 18, already in a sixth form in a Canterbury school. She also has a daughter Carrie-Anne, nine, at Sholden School.

Farm secretary Mrs Miller from Deal said: “The cost of living is rising all the time and it is unfair on families struggling to meet those costs.

“Either the government should give the council more money or the council should find the money itself. It is unfair and a big jump in costs once your children are over the age of 16.”

Mrs Miller said she has been trying to sort out the Freedom Pass for about two years when her daughter went into sixth form and had asked a councillors whether the Freedom Pass was to be extended.

She added: “I was informed at the time that it could be extended next year, which was then going to be 2011, but obviously this has never happened!

“I heard someone on kmfm news saying that her child was going into sixth form this year and it will cost her £520 to get her child to school by bus. So I thought that there must be a lot more parents out there thinking the same as me so I wanted to do something.”

She went onto www.38degrees.org.uk, where people can start and run their own campaigns, and signed up.

“I posted the petition on Facebook and emailed everyone from my email account. It just goes to show what people can do when we stick together.”