Another mum, Kay, said she changed jobs to work more flexibly because taking her 12-year-old daughter Matilda and 10-year-old son Milo to eye clinics in Shrewsbury became so time consuming.
“They have to go every six months, both of them do. And the appointments only last 20 minutes, if that really,” she said.
“But it takes such a long time to get there, it’s an hour to get there and you have to allow for parking and it’s an hour to come back. It’s such a big chunk of the day and they’re missing time off school.”
Matilda is frustrated too: “Well of course not everybody likes school but it always feels like sometimes I’m missing important things when I’m not at school.
“Like I missed a test once and I had to do that on one of the days when it was a ‘fun day’.”
Milo added: “It annoys me because I could just go to Ludlow.”