Given that home to school transport policy aims to facilitate attendance, we asked the Department if the current system was doing all it could to promote it. The Department told us that it saw transport as critical to ensuring access to education but explained that it only measures the number of total school sessions missed due to problems on a particular day with local-authority-provided home to school transport (for the 6% of children that already receive it). It told us that for the 2024/2...

Given that home to school transport policy aims to facilitate attendance, we asked the Department if the current system was doing all it could to promote it. The Department told us that it saw transport as critical to ensuring access to education but explained that it only measures the number of total school sessions missed due to problems on a particular day with local-authority-provided home to school transport (for the 6% of children that already receive it). It told us that for the 2024/25 academic year, only around 0.15% of all school sessions missed (by all school children) were due to issues with transport.32 We asked whether home to s Type: conclusion | Number: 14 | Response status: response_pending