Home to School Transport

Home to School Transport

Hampshire County Council (HCC) has a statutory duty to make arrangements to provide free of charge home to school transport for ‘eligible children’ (defined below) only.

3. DEFINITION OF ‘ELIGIBLE CHILDREN’

Eligible children are defined as children of compulsory school age

• who attend their nearest or catchment school which is beyond the statutory walking distance.
• who, because of their special educational needs, disability or mobility problems cannot reasonably be expected to walk to their school.
• whose route to the nearest suitable school is unsafe.
• children entitled to free school meals or whose parents receive the maximum level of Working Families Tax Credit (subject to a distance requirement).

4. ‘ELIGIBLE CHILDREN’ – EXPLANATION OF RELEVANT FACTORS

4.1. As a general rule, HCC will only make provision for free of charge transport for the children referenced set out above.

4.2. The following paragraphs explain the eligibility for free of charge transport for eligible children only in more detail.

Statutory walking distances

4.4. For pupils of compulsory school age, transport is provided if their nearest suitable or catchment school, measured from the child’s home to the nearest available entrance to the school grounds’, is:

• Beyond two miles (if below the age of eight); or
• Beyond three miles (if aged between eight and 16

Please visit the Home to School Transport page on the County Council’swebsite (Hantsweb) for up-to-date contact information. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/education/schools/school-transport.htm