Issue details

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.