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Suffolk strategies Various Suffolk strategies encourage a shift to more sustainable travel patterns. These include: • Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) - State of Suffolk – how we travel • Suffolk Road Safety <strong>Strategy</strong> - to make the roads of Suffolk safer for all • Active travel improvements for cycling and walking - how we’re making it safer and easier for you to walk and cycle in Suffolk These promote the benefits of sustainable and/or active travel to improve children and young people’s health and wellbeing and improving the quality of the local environment. By schools and other education providers adopting a sustainable approach to travel planning this can help families save money and help their child develop their independence. Sustainable modes of travel to school can include: 1. Walking, cycling and scooting 2. Park and stride (for example, parking further away and walking the last 5 minutes to school), or travel blending 3. Using public transport – bus, train or Connecting Communities rural transport 4. Car sharing To find advice on travelling to school safely go to: Advice on travelling to school For information and advice on sustainable travel methods and Travel Plans visit: The Way To Go Suffolk School Travel Plans All schools in Suffolk have a School Travel Plan (STP) which identifies the challenges children and families may experience during their journey to and from school. It sets out the school’s aims to overcome these problems and describes the steps to improve these. Each school owns its own School Travel Plan and is responsible for reviewing the plan regularly. Effective and up to date School Travel Plans, should include measures to improve safety and reduce car use and should involve the school working in partnership with education, health and transport representatives from the local authority, public transport operators and the police. To help schools, colleges and other educational providers with the activity of keeping their school travel plan up to date, SCC promotes the use of the Modeshift STARS online resource. This is available free of charge to all schools in Suffolk and is designed to: 5
• improve sustainable travel • reduce congestion around the school gates • improve the health and well-being of children and families • offer an accreditation system with local and national awards for individual schools. SCC funded 5 million journeys to school a year under the former (2018-19) School Travel Policy which included a discretionary arrangement of providing transport, subject to distance and age, to the Transport Priority Area school. Most families (88%) arrange their own travel to school. Phasing in the new School Travel Policy, which started in September 2019, gave schools, colleges and other educational providers the opportunity to update their school travel plans using the online Modeshift STARs resource. This will give Suffolk an up to date baseline for monitoring sustainable travel and improvements to air quality around schools. Information about all types of travel plans can be found at www.suffolk.gov.uk/travelplans. School and Post-16 Travel Policies Following consultation of the School Travel and Post-16 Travel Policies, SCC’s Cabinet agreed on 19 June 2018 to introduce a new School Travel Policy with effect from September 2019. This has been implemented on a phased basis for children as they join or move schools. The policy is based on a child attending their nearest suitable school; age and distance criteria apply. Full details of the Cabinet paper can be found in Agenda Item 07 Cabinet also agreed to maintain the existing Post-16 Travel Policy but the cost for post-16 travel and spare seats will rise each year until they reach the average cost of a seat. Through SCC’s Passenger Transport Unit, SCC will support parents and carers to understand the sustainable choices they can make with a range of travel options, and work with transport operators to increase availability of public transport, funded by others. For more information go to www.suffolkonboard.com/schooltravel. 6
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