Home-to-school transport for pupils up to the age of 16 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Council's provision of home-to-school transport (HTST) for pupils up to the age of 16 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Please provide the following information for the last four complete academic years (2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 & 2024/25) and, where available, data for the current year (2025/26). If it is more convenient and less costly for you when searching your records, please provide the data for the financial years listed above, rather than academic years.

1. Cost

a) What is the total cost to the council of SEND home-to-school transport (HTST)?

b) What is the total cost to the council of single-occupancy vehicles (i.e. vehicles which are transporting only one pupil) used for HTST?

2. Pupil Numbers

a) In total, how many pupils with SEND receive HTST?

b) Of those, how many travel in single-occupancy vehicles?

3. Distance and Journey Times

a) How many pupils with HTST arrangements have a journey from home to school (and/or vice versa) that exceeds 75 minutes?

b) How many pupils with HTST arrangements in single-occupancy vehicles have a journey from home to school (and/or vice versa) that exceeds 75 minutes?

c) What is the longest distance (in miles) currently being travelled from home to school (and/or vice versa) by a pupil with HTST arrangements in single-occupancy vehicles?

d) How many times a week is this journey (answer 3c) made? If fewer than once a week, please specify how many times a month.

e) What was the cost of an individual instance of this journey (answer 3c)?

1.

a. See table below.

b. Information relates to pupils authorised to travel on their own - only information for the current Financial Year can be provided, as information is not stored historically.  2025-2026 - £512,732.60

2.

a. See table below.

b. Information relates to pupils authorised to travel on their own - only information for the current Financial Year can be provided, as information is not stored historically. 2025-2026 – 154

3. Information can only be provided for the current financial year.

a. 526.

b. Three (as per definition above in 1b & 2b).

c. 56.35 miles.

d. Monday to Friday Inclusive.

e. £265.00 per day (£132.50 per journey).