Post-16 Transport Policy Statement 2025/26

Travel assistance will not be provided outside of the timetable that has been pre-agreed by the Council.

Transport is only provided Monday to Friday. The only exception to this may be instances where weekend travel is required for students who are boarders at residential schools.

Transport is provided at the start and end of the normal school or college day. Transport will not be provided for journeys made during the school/college day.

Examples of circumstances where travel assistance will not be provided are:

• to enable students to undertake work experience, work placements, apprenticeships or traineeships (see below for more information on Supported Internships)
• to enable the student to attend any off-site provision arranged by the school/college
• to enable a dual registered student to attend a pupil referral unit
• to transfer the student between the main school/college site and a satellite site during the school’s or college’s normal day
• for induction, transition or taster days
• to take students home after extra-curricular activities or detentions
• for students who are taken ill at school/college to enable them to return home
• to enable students to attend medical or dental appointments
• to enable students to attend morning or afternoon clubs before or after the normal school/college day

There may be other reasons why travel assistance may not be provided and in these circumstances, this will be explained to the parent/carer.

Transport will not be changed to accommodate examination timetables or individual college/course timetables where transport is shared with other students.

In all of the above circumstances the school, college or parent/carer, as appropriate, must make their own arrangements and pay for transport.

Young people who are undertaking a Supported Internship, where agreed by the Council and named in their EHCP, will have their transport eligibility assessed in line with the criteria set out in section 5.1.

Appropriate transport arrangements will be made based on the age and needs of the young person. Pick-up and drop-off times cannot be rescheduled to take into account other family commitments.

Parents/carers who are unable to be home at the specified pick-up and drop-off times and location will have to make alternative arrangements.

The pick-up/setting down point for students with SEND may be up to 1 mile from their home address.

Parents/carers are responsible for ensuring their child is at the pick-up point near their home and for accompanying their child to/from this point where required.

SEND transport guidelines are published on our website.