Special Educational Needs: Transport

(asked on 1st July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, many young people with an education health and care plan in post-16 education have been unsuccessful in an application for local authority funded home to school transport in (a) England and (b) each local authority for the latest school year.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 9th July 2019

The Department for Education does not collect data on the number of young people for whom local authorities provide post-16 transport arrangements, including young people with special educational needs and Education, Health and Care Plans.

The statutory responsibility for transport for 16-19 year olds rests with local authorities who have a duty to publish a transport policy statement each year, specifying the arrangements they will make to support young people to access further education and training. The department expects local authorities to make reasonable decisions about what support should be available based on the needs of their population, the local transport infrastructure and the resources they have available.

The post-16 transport duty also applies to students aged up to 25 with special educational needs. Local authorities post-16 transport policy statements must include specific arrangements for these students. The transport needs of young people with special educational needs should also be reassessed by their local authority when a young person moves from compulsory schooling to post-16 education.

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