Decision Maker: Director of Learning, Opportunities and Skills
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
The Travel Assistance Service has a number of
upcoming changes and projects to oversee and implement during the
2022/23 Financial year. These include:
- Creation and implementation of a new Home to School Policy and
the governance around this
- Creation and implementation of a new Dynamic Purchasing System
Contract and the governance around this
- Embedding familiarising the new Synergy system and creating new
ways of working following the change to this system at the end of
February 2022
- Implementing a new system for procurement and invoicing and
payments to contractors through a collaboration with ADAM Transport
Systems and the associated governance.
Additionally this service has seen the number of pupils requiring
specialised transport rise by 14% since the start of the COVID
pandemic and over 25% during the past 5 years with a corresponding
increase in workloads.
To utilise funding identified through the
Service Transformation Fund of £53k To provide additional
temporary capacity into the Travel Assistance Service in the form
of:
- 1 year fixed term FTE Team Manager (Grade 8) April 2022 to March
2023
- 1 year fixed term FTE Transport Officer (Grade 5) April 2022 to
March 2023
ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND
REJECTED
This temporary assistance will assist the team to manage the
projects and transformations required through 2022/23 and also
provide an indication of the level of additional capacity which may
be required on a more permanent basis within the Travel Assistance
service to maintain the high levels of customer service with ever
increasing workloads.
Without this assistance there will be insufficient resource within
the team to continue to manage all of the customer service,
workloads and projects required to move the team forward
Publication date: 29/06/2022
Date of decision: 28/06/2022
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