Post-16 SEND home to school travel consultation
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.
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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