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2. Why Consider a Personal Travel Budget and What Can They be Used For?

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Why consider a Personal Travel Budget and what can they be used for?

What are the benefits of Personal Travel Budgets?

  1. Some of the possible benefits are: 

  • Personal travel budgets provide parents with the freedom and flexibility to make their own arrangements that suit the child and the family

  • PTBs give families control over how the money is spent

  • They are flexible and can be pooled with other parents either to create an income for families or to save money on the costs of travel

  • They can be used to help children and young people become more independent.

What can a Personal Travel Budget be used for?

  1. The Council does not specify how a Personal Travel Budget is spent other than it must always be used to ensure your child’s attendance at school. Some examples include:

  • Buying a travel pass for public transport for a parent / carer / guardian / buddy to travel with your young person

  • Paying someone to walk with the young person to their place of learning

  • Parents may wish to ‘pool’ their personal travel budgets and take it in turns to transport their children to school 

  • Covering the costs of childcare while the parent is supporting the young person to travel to school

  • Overcoming other barriers that may prevent the parent or young person from travelling to their place of learning.

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