Type of travel assistance available

Personal Transport Budgets (PTBs) are designed to give families the freedom and to flexibility to make travel arrangements that best meet their family’s needs. They enable parents to retain responsibility for ensuring their child attends school whilst providing the means to do so when the child is eligible. 

For further information and to apply please see Personal Travel Budget (SEND Local Offer)

Independent travel training provides young people with tailored and practical assistance to travel safely by public travel, on foot or by bicycle to their school, college and placement. It also supports young people socially, to access other key services and connect with friends and family.

Independent travel is an essential life skill, and helps to better prepare young people for adulthood, and for accessing further education and employment by raising their confidence in their abilities.

The council’s Independent Travel Trainer’s will work with schools and colleges to be able to deliver travel training to their students. 

If a young person is identified as potentially suitable for travel training, their parent/carer will be contacted by the council or their school to arrange a consultation with the nominated travel trainer. 

Following the consultation, the young person and family (where appropriate) will then be supported to undertake the training programme. If they are not ready or suitable for training, a future review date will be set, and they will continue to be provided with travel assistance if they remain eligible.

Further information about Independent Travel Training can be found on our Local Offer page.

Where young people are eligible and the method of transport is determined to be appropriate to offer but the child or young person requires accompanying, the council may offer a public transport bus pass to a parent / carer to meet its obligation to provide free home to school travel assistance View details of eligibility and how to apply (leicester.gov.uk website).

This includes but may not be limited to: 

• Pick up and drop off form/to a collection point or central location locally 
• Shared or individual, private hire vehicle or minibus for groups of young people
• Individual taxi, private hire vehicle or minibus for solo travellers (exceptional circumstances only)