We commission a network of more than150 routes to enable
children to access school each day.
These routes provide transport for around 3000 eligible pupils
and 200 fare-paying pupils. We also regularly monitor these routes
to ensure children have safe and timely journeys to school.
More than 28,000 schoolchildren are taken to school in cars and
in buses each day due to increasing car ownership, dependency
and fears over children's safety.
As a result school travel planning is becoming an increasingly
important local transport issue.
Our priorities include creating safer journeys using sustainable
transport and reducing road congestion in a
bid balance the need to travel and our quality of
life.