School Transport Services

1. Does the council currently operate any transport routes for which the destination falls outside of the council area in either of the following categories (YES/NO)

a) SEN Transport (assuming this is option a) and it was just missing from the original query) – YES

b) Home to School (assuming this is what we refer to as ‘Mainstream’ transport i,e home to school transport to non-SEN establishments) – YES

c) Taxi Services – YES but we treat taxis as a sub-category within Special Educational Needs (SEN), Mainstream and Social Care transport.

d) Transport for Adult Care – NO

 

 

2. If yes – can the council state – for each category, how many individual journeys have been made to out-of-council destinations in this financial year to date (23-24). Please also supply the number of individual journeys broken down by the previous two financial years (22-23 and 21-22)

a) SEN Transport

b) Home to School

c) Taxi Services

d) Transport for Adult Care

Please see below.

 

3.In each of the following categories, can the council provide the longest individual journey carried out this current financial year (23-24). Please also supply that figure going back the two previous financial years (22-23 and 21-22).

a) SEN Transport

b) Home to School

c) Taxi Services

d) Transport for Adult Care

 

We do not hold cumulative data for either a financial or academic year, but we can take data from a snapshot which was taken at a particular time. Contracts are set up for a certain number of days per academic year, so to get annual figures we assume that the contract will operate for the maximum amount of days. In reality that might not be the case, and if a snapshot was taken on a different day the figures could be different. Therefore the figures provided are estimated totals for the academic year, rather than the financial year, and are for vehicle journeys rather than passenger journeys. Temporary contracts are not included in the data. So, for example, if on a particular day the data shows that we have 10 vehicles operating to out of County establishments, and these are all set up to operate on 190 days in the academic year, we would estimate that there will be a total of 1,900 out of County vehicle journeys in that academic year.

Routes where petrol allowances are paid to parents/carers to provide transport are included, public transport routes on which Devon County Council purchases scholar passes are not included. ‘Taxi Services’ are not included as a separate category because SEN and Mainstream transport includes taxi contracts.