Cost of school transport - Find a freedom of information request

Request
  1. The total cost to your council of transporting children to schools outside your local authority in the financial year 2017/2018.
  2. How much of a) was for children with Special Educational Needs?
  3.  Without disclosing names or identities of individual pupils, I'd like the following information for the five pupils with special educational needs that had the longest journeys:
    i) how long, in miles or kilometres, was their journey?
    ii) How many times did they make the trip during the financial year?
    iii) What was the total cost of transporting them during the financial year?
Decision
  1. The approximate costs were £1,830,016.65.
  2. The approximate costs were £1,353,317.08
  3. See table below

Child

Distance

Number of Journeys

Cost

1

218 miles one way

76

£20,862.00

2

214 miles one way

6

£1,494.00

3

213 miles one way

12

£2,580.00

4

206 miles one way

38

£11,170.57

5

206 miles one way

19

£3,211.00
Reference number
FOI0144
Date request received
03 June 2019
Date of decision
02 July 2019