{"id":19658,"date":"2024-07-01T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/educationandfamilies\/guides-1\/route-safety-appeals\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T14:14:17","slug":"route-safety-appeals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-and-college-transport\/school-transport-appeals-and-complaints\/route-safety-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Route safety appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are worried about the safety of a walking journey to school, the appeal process is slightly different. You will need to raise your concerns with a transport coordination officer (TCO) who will review your case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may result in a site visit by TCOs who will check if the walking journey to school is judged to be safe for a child to walk in reasonable safety, with an adult where needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that site visits can only be carried out during school term time to match the same traffic conditions as a normal \u2018school day\u2019. So, for example, if your appeal is made during the summer school holidays a site visit can\u2019t be carried out until the school term starts in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To speak to a TCO please call <a href=\"tel:03451551019\">0345 155 1019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note that the following are not taken into account during a route safety walk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the parent\u2019s individual circumstances, for instance personal availability to walk with the child or that it may be necessary to walk with younger children or pram<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>parental finances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>local weather conditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>unusual events \u2013 such as, road closures, construction work, flooding<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>lack of street lighting \u2013 the majority of roads in Devon do not have streetlights and lighting is not an issue all year round<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>lack of pavements \u2013 the lack of a paved footpath is not necessarily a reason to assess a route as unsuitable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the presence of uncut hedges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>difficult terrain and arduousness of the route<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>practicality or the time taken to walk the route<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are worried about the safety of a walking journey to school, the appeal process is slightly different. You will need to raise your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":19645,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19658","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:08:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19658\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}