Ebba Nilsson, 18, has an intellectual disability, autism, ADHD, and a sleep disorder, according to official sources. When she was 15, she needed to move away from home because there are no adapted children's and youth homes in her home municipality of Tierp, official sources report. She was placed in Stockholm due to this lack of adapted homes in Tierp, and has since started high school there.
Tierp municipality has denied Ebba Nilsson's application for school transport, citing the School Act. The municipality stated that no obligation to arrange school transport exists and thus the question of suitability does not need to be examined. According to official sources, the School Act stipulates that students in adapted high school with a private principal have the right to free school transport within their home municipality.
The certificates and medical opinions that were attached to the application have therefore not been considered in the handling of the matter, because no obligation to arrange school transport exists and the question of suitability thus does not need to be examined.
Ebba Nilsson is forced to use her special transport service trips to get to school, with the cost between 6000 and 7000 kronor per month, according to her mother Kristina Nilsson. SVT sought comment from Tierp municipality, which declined an interview despite having a power of attorney from Kristina Nilsson, according to official sources. It remains unclear why Tierp municipality declined the interview, what specific solution Kristina Nilsson refers to, and whether Ebba Nilsson's high school qualifies under the School Act for transport rights.
Additionally, how Tierp municipality justifies not providing transport given her disabilities and placement outside the municipality, and what alternative arrangements it has proposed, are unresolved questions.
One can solve this if one wants, there is a solution. But Tierp municipality chooses not to do it.
It is economically unsustainable. I am a single parent and also have other bills that must be paid.