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Responsibilities

Your responsibility

Parents and carers are responsible for making sure their children attend school regularly. For most families, this includes:

  • arranging travel to school
  • paying for travel to school

Our responsibility

We have a legal duty to provide free, suitable travel assistance for certain groups of children, known as 'eligible children'. Most children in the city will not receive travel assistance from us. This is because they can walk or use public transport.

We aim to use sustainable travel options whenever possible. Examples include:

  • walking
  • cycling
  • public transport

We may offer travel training to help pupils travel independently. The type of travel assistance we offer will be:

  • suitable for the child's needs, and
  • an effective use of public money
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