Travel assistance after a house move
We expect that the journey to school is considered as part of a house move. If your child already receives travel assistance and you move, you must advise your school of the new address, and return any travel pass to Transport and the Connected County.
If your child will no longer be attending the catchment or closest school for their new address, they are no longer entitled to free travel assistance. Please consider that over 90% of pupils are not entitled to travel assistance and it is therefore highly likely that you will need to make your own travel arrangements each day.
We would expect you to fund your own travel arrangements to continue attending the existing school or alternatively transfer your child to the nearest suitable or catchment school serving your new address. Should your child be attending the catchment or nearest suitable school with a place available for your new address, and you live over distance then a new application should be made for travel assistance.
There is a range of travel support that you may find useful when planning the journey to school - for example public transport, road safety training carried out within schools, school crossing patrols, cycle training and walking buses.
If your new address is within Staffordshire, your move was sudden and due to exceptional circumstances, and the pupil was attending the catchment or nearest suitable school for your last address (, but it is no longer the catchment or closest school for the new address) the Authority may consider offering travel assistance to continue to attend the same school. An application should be made, and you must attach evidence of what you consider to be your exceptional circumstances. Applications for pupils in years 10 and 11 will be given a higher level of consideration, but each application will be considered on its own merits considering all the circumstances and supporting evidence provided – there is no guarantee that assistance will be provided for any case.
