Sheffield SEND
Consultation page for engagement surveys and polls for Sheffield Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) service.
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What is this consultation about?
From September 2025, we propose to introduce Personal Travel Budgets for eligible young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in Post-16 education and training.
A Personal Travel Budget would replace travel support from Council vehicles, including taxis and parents/carers would be responsible for getting their young person to school or college.
We would consider alternative arrangements (e.g. minibus or taxi) in exceptional circumstances where the travel needs of the young person cannot be met by a Personal Travel Budget.
Adult learners aged 19-25 who are eligible for travel support would also be able to access a personal travel budget.
The closing date for responses is Wednesday 12 February 2025 at 10.00 am.
What is a personal travel budget?
A Personal Travel Budget (PTB) gives you the funding to arrange your young person’s flexible travel to school or college, instead of using council-provided vehicles or claiming back the cost for driving your young person yourself.
A Personal Travel Budget does not require receipts and is paid to you in three instalments across the school year.
Payments are dependent on maintaining acceptable attendance levels. A list of the payment amounts is available in the leaflet at the bottom of this page.
Benefits of a Personal Travel Budget
- Consistent payments: regular, predictable funding
- Flexibility: Choose the best travel arrangements for your family
- Control: Decide on the services and resources that meet young people’s needs
- Independence: Help young people develop travel skills
- Shared Options: Team up with other parents for group transport or walking bus
- Convenience: Arrange pickups and drop offs that fit your schedule, including after school activities or visits to
- Appointments: Easily manage school and college attendance around young people’s appointments
You can make whatever travel arrangements you like, as long as they are safe and reliable and young people arrive at school or college on time.
You can read more about a Personal Travel Budget and the kinds of things you could spend it on in the leaflet at the bottom of this page.
Supporting young people to travel on their own
In addition, young people might be eligible to access Independent Travel Training to support them to travel safely and confidently on their own. For more information about travel training please visit the independent travel training pages on the Local Offer website: Independent Travel Training | Sheffield
Independent travel is known to have benefits for young people’s educational achievement, life skills and social growth.
Further support
Thank you for taking the time to complete this consultation. We are really keen to hear your views. If you need a paper copy of the questions, please contact: ptb@sheffield.gov.uk
This survey is anonymous. We will use the information you provide to inform the development of our Post 16 travel support. Our reporting will not identify individuals. If we use any comments you provide as examples within our reporting, we will make sure they are anonymised and cannot be used to identify you and your child.
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Take Survey
Sheffield City Council are always looking at how to develop, update and improve the Local Offer. These are web pages which provides information about services and support for children and young people aged 0-25 years with special educational needs and disabilities. The Local Offer web pages sit on a website called the Sheffield Directory.
Your feedback will help us to make the website better. We will publish an annual report on the Local Offer website, summarising the comments received and the actions that are being taken as a result.
Link to the website: LocalOffer | Sheffield (sheffielddirectory.org.uk)
Please complete this short questionnaire to tell us about your experience of using the Local Offer.
Contact
Wayne Priestley (Communication & Engagement Officer)
Telephone: 0114 205 3849
E-mail: localoffer@sheffield.gov.uk
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Take Survey
Your child has recently been assessed and granted an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) by the SEND Statutory Assess & Review Service (SENDSARS) within Sheffield City Council. This short questionnaire has been designed to gather valuable, constructive feedback on your experience of the EHCP process within SENDSARS only.
Your views and experience surrounding the EHCP process will enable us to improve SENDSARS for future users.
Contact
SEND Statutory Assess & Review Service (SENDSARS)
0114 273 6394
SendAssess&Review@sheffield.gov.uk
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Take Survey
Do you have a child or young person with a special educational need and/or a disability (SEND) who attends a nursery, school or college in Sheffield?
Please complete this survey to help us understand how well this setting supports your child. We also want to know how welcoming settings are towards learners with SEND. Please complete one questionnaire for each setting you want to give feedback about.
The survey will be open year-round. Responses will be downloaded and analysed twice a year. Your feedback will be used to decide which settings will be offered training and support to improve their SEND provision, and to share best practice. We are unable to reply to individual survey responses.
This questionnaire is NOT a tool for raising complaints about a setting. How to make a complaint about a school or nursery. How to make a complaint about a college
If you need advice or support in relation to your child’s SEND, please contact SSENDIAS (Sheffield Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support). Alternatively, you may wish to contact the Sheffield Parent Carer Forum for signposting and peer support.
Contact
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Take Survey
The Transitions Guide has been written for parents and carers of young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
We are interested in what you think of it. Please answer the following questions to help us improve our information.
Contact: sendsurvey@sheffield.gov.uk
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