Please could you provide the following data in for the past 3 years for SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for Children and Young People (CYP) aged pre-16 and 16 to 18:
1. Your local authority’s expenditure on SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by in-house vs outsourced.
| Year | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
| Annual spend on SEND Transport services outsourced | £21,477,375.00 | £25,095,802.00 | £26,848,368.00 |
Please note, we do not provide in house transport.
2. Please list all the providers used to deliver your authority’s SEND HTS transport services for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years.
This information can be found at the following link Transport Providers.
Providers listed below are taken from a snapshot in June 2024 and provide transport for both SEN and mainstream educational settings. As some SEN pupils attend mainstream settings, or specialist units within a mainstream setting, the routes are shared with both SEN and Mainstream pupils.
3. Total local authority actual expenditure on SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by provider.
Devon County Council does not hold this information as we do not have this broken down by provider, our system only holds information by contracted route.
4. Please provide the total number of routes for SEND home-to-school (HTS) transport for CYP aged pre-16 and 16 to 18 for the last three years by provider.
Details taken from a snapshot in June each year providing transport to SEN settings can be found below:
| Year | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
| Number of routes | 789 | 844 | 1056. |
We do not hold information on figures broken down for each provider, only the number of routes in total.