No offence but I do think the parents should be taking & picking their children up
If you had any idea how difficult it can be to raise a severely disabled child you would review this statement. The service is offered and has to be offered if the school is a certain distance from the home address. It is not possible for all parents to drop off and pick up their children, some do but that does not necessarily make them better parents than those who don’t. It is often a very difficult decision to hand over the trust of care of your child, particularly to someone you do not know. In fact it is agonising. The same is true for respite care. The decisions you have to make as a parent of a child with additional needs weigh heavily, but you cannot do it without help. It is simply not possible.