The structure of the School transport team

1. Service Size - Passengers
Please breakdown your service size as follows:
a. Mainstream Students (Reception-Y11)
b. SEND Students (Reception-Y11)
c. Post-16 Mainstream & SEND Students (Y12+)
d. Other (please state the reason for them not fitting in the above 3 categories)

2. Team Size
Please advise the number of people allocated to this service, and a break down of their roles.
As an example:
Principal Transport Planning Officer x 1(Team Manager), Transport Planning Officer (x4), Independent Travel Trainers (x2).

3. Service Responsibility
Please advise which of the following your team is responsible for and indicate numbers of staff allocated from the above staffing numbers. If all staff complete all elements, please complete the table only with responsibilities completed but just indicate that the responsibility is split across the staff.

Responsibility Staff Allocated
Eligibility / Applications
Contract Management
Procurement
Health & Safety
Compliance
Appeals
Projects
Invoicing / Finance
Anything else (please expand the table as needed)

Please also include any supporting comments for the above if they don't quite fit the responsibility of the team.

4. Contracts Held
Please indicate the number of contracts held broken down as follows:
* Mainstream:
* SEND:
* Post-16:

5. Annual Budget
Please provide your approximate annual budget for all Home to School Transport activities for 2026/27 (or 2025/26 if the new financial year is not confirmed yet).

6. Directorate
a) Which Directorate does Home to School Transport sit within?
b) Does Home to School Transport hold the budget or does this sit with another team, and if so which team?

7. Team Contact
a) Please provide an email address for the Home to School Transport Service (a shared or generic inbox is fine).

1. Service Size - Passengers

Mainstream Students (Reception-Y11) – 13,623

SEND Students (Reception-Y11) – 3,305

Post-16 Mainstream & SEND Students (Y12+) - 2284

Other (please state the reason for them not fitting in the above 3 categories) 

Concessionary Passengers - 43

2. Team Size

See attached structure chart

3. Service Responsibility

See attached chart

4. Contracts held

Mainstream: 1295 (includes Personal Travel Budget arrangements)

SEND: 944 (includes Personal Travel Budget arrangements)

Post-16: see Mainstream

5. Annual Budget

2026/2027 Budget is £61,557,133

6. Directorate

Home to School Transport sits within the Place directorate

7. Team Contact

TSG@lincolnshire.gov.uk

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.