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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) transport services
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I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act to request the following information from the Transportation Department and / or Education Department.
1. Could you please provide me with the amount that was spent on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities transport services over the current academic year (2022 – 2023)
Total cost in 2022/23 financial year: £4,240,193 - Information is held by financial year.
2. List of 5 largest providers of these services by volume (the number of schoolchildren delivered) and spend.
• School Express
o 179 children in March 2023
o Total cost in 2022/23: £2,087,642
• Green Metro Cars Ltd
o 102 children in March 2023
o Total cost in 2022/23: £962,896
• ABC Travel (Wokingham) Ltd t/a ABC Travel
o 30 children in March 2023
o Total cost in 2022/23: £346,994
• ASR Travel Limited
o 48 children in March 2023
o Total cost in 2022/23: £309,907
• Ace Wheelchair Travel
o 12 children in March 2023
o Total cost in 2022/23: £168,359
Total cost in 2022/23 financial year: £3,875,797
If this information is not available for the full academic year, please provide for any period within the year that is available. The bigger part of the year this information covers, the better. Could you please include the name of the provider, the number of schoolchildren delivered by each of the providers, and the amount spent on each of the providers. Please also indicate which time period which this information covers.
