Please provide information regarding home-to-school transport services involving passengers not entitled to free transport:
1. Exempt Vehicle Usage
When was the last time a PSVAR-exempt vehicle was used on such services? Please specify provider, route(s), and date.
2. Eliminating Exempt Vehicles
What contractual measures or guidance have you implemented to ensure exempt vehicles are no longer used on these particular trips?
3. PSVAR-Compliant Fleet Share
Of the vehicles deployed on these specific non-entitled passenger services, how many (number and percentage) are fully PSVAR-compliant?
How do you ensure that companies providing home to school services have the requisite number and proportion of fully PSVAR compliant vehicles as required from 1st August 2025 depending on their fleet size?
4. Monitoring & Enforcement
How is compliance monitored? What are the consequences or remediation steps if providers fail to meet no-use or compliance obligations?
5. Related Documentation
Please forward any policy documents, guidance, risk assessments, correspondence with providers, or exemption requests related to PSVAR compliance for this category of school transport.
If records are held by contractors on your behalf, please confirm whether they are subject to FOI and how responses would be coordinated. For any refusal or redactions, please cite relevant exemptions and internal review procedures.
In response to questions 1-5, Devon County Council does not hold this information. Currently, an exemption is in place for Public Service Vehicles Accessibility Regulations (PSVR). The monitoring of PSVR vehicles is carried out by the Department for Transport and is monitored by the The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Devon County Council does not monitor PSVR.