{"id":69734,"date":"2025-07-07T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=69734"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:37:59","slug":"if-you-are-offered-assistance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-and-college-transport\/post-16-transport\/if-you-are-offered-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"If you are offered assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The form of assistance you are offered will vary on a case by case basis and will be dependent on your family\u2019s circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If support is agreed by Devon County Council, the Transport Co-ordination Service will decide what the minimum level of support required is. This may be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>independent travel training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a vacant seat on a contract vehicle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a petrol allowance to assist your parents or carers to take you to school or college in the family vehicle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a financial contribution to assist your parents or carers with the cost of making private transport arrangements to enable you to get to school or college<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will any help offered be free of charge?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No. Any help offered by Devon County Council will be subject to the payment of the parental contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will any help offered be for the duration of my post-16 studies?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>No. Any help offered by Devon County Council will be for that academic year only, or the duration agreed upon, if for a shorter time. You will need to re-apply each academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need advice as to which school or college is the nearest to your home, or more help with your travel to education, contact 0345 155 1019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The form of assistance you are offered will vary on a case by case basis and will be dependent on your family\u2019s circumstances. If support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":19571,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-69734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 10:06:13","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\/69734","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=69734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69736,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69734\/revisions\/69736"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}