Department For Education
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Allocations for extended rights to free travel and general duty to promote sustainable travel: 2020 to 2024 shows how much funding local authorities have received from the Department for Education (DfE) for free school travel in each financial year from 2020 to 2024.
Local authorities use this funding to pay for home to school travel for children from low income families, as required by the Education Act 1996. Further information is available in the home to school travel and transport statutory guidance.
In the 2023 to 2024 financial year, funding will be paid byDfEto local authorities in 2 installments (April to October) as a Section 31 grant.
Extended rights grant allocations financial year 2023 to 2024: explanatory note provides an overview of the funding methodology for the grant.
Additional school and college transport capacity funding allocations shows the funding that local transport authorities received to support additional dedicated school and college transport. It relates to the period when social distancing was required on public transport in response to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Contact
Local authorities who have questions about the funding can email school.travel@education.gov.uk.
Parents can read about home to school transport or contact their local authority.
Contact the DfE for any other enquiries about home to school transport.