1. Number of students, split by SEN, Mainstream and other.
SEN: 2154 (including Post 16 aged students)
Mainstream: 12,719 (including Post 16 aged students)
2. Number of daily return routes, split by SEN, Mainstream and other.
SEN: 592
Mainstream: 999
3. 2022/23 budget (to the nearest £0.5M)
£34,324,000
4. 2022/23 over/underspend (to the nearest £0.5M)
Based on current expected growth in demand for SEN transport, including new settings from September 2022 we are expecting an overspend of £6.9million.
5. Do you have an integrated transport unit or does school transport sit alone?
Integrated unit.
6. Do you fully manage your home to school service or do you contract out the management to another company or to operators?
Some in house fleet but majority provided by operators.
7. What transport management software do you use?
Internal Transport Management System.
8. What is the size of your home to school transport team, split by grade structure (ie, 1 x manager, 2 x principal officers, 10 x officers, 1 x compliance officer, etc)?
School Transport is managed by the County Councils Transport Coordination Service (TCS). The size of the team is:
1 Head of Service
2 Senior Managers
4 team leaders
4 Senior Transport Coordination Officers
18 Transport Coordination Officers
3 Assistant Transport Coordination Officers
1 Compliance Officer
Note – some of these members of staff do not work 100% on school transport. They will also cover other areas of passenger transport, for example Social Care, Fleet and Independent Travel Training.
9. In which directorate does home to school transport sit?
The TCS sits within the Climate Change, Environment and Transport Directorate.
10. Do you operate a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) or do you allocate certain geographical zones to one or more dedicated operator?
DPS for all passenger transport.