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Travel training and escorts

Travel training
Travel training is often included in an individualised plan for those students who will eventually have the capacity to travel independently. It includes walking, cycling or using public transport and ranges from specific training between destinations, or more generalised community travel.

Schools may be able to incorporate specific destination training between home and school as a student's skills develop. This would typically occur when a student's individualised plan includes a goal targeting independent travel between home and school as an achievable outcome within the period of the plan.

In this case, students may be eligible for assistance through the use of escorts for public transport, cycling or walking under the School Transport Assistance Program for Students with Disabilities.

Escorts
The Transport Assessor may recommend that a student with a disability requires an escort to accompany them on transport between home and school for the purposes of managing conduct or safety either by public or contract transport.

An escort:

• is usually a teacher aide at the school the students is attending
• must be 18 years of age or older
• must hold a current Blue Card issued by the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian.

A parent/carer may be an escort but will not be paid for escorting duties and cannot claim for a return fare home.

The Principal Advisor, Education Services or delegate authorises the escort as part of the assessment arrangements, to travel with a student for either Category 1 or Category 2 school transport assistance.

Escort transport costs and teacher aide wages (where appropriate) are paid while the escort is travelling with the student and are met by the School Transport Assistance Program. Teacher Aide wages may also be paid in cases where the escort must travel alone back to the student pick-up address. This would be an exceptional circumstance approval.

If wages are involved, schools should pay escorts directly and claim reimbursement from the School Transport Unit in Central Office.

This page is available as a printable pdf version 26k.

Related procedure
SMS-PR-009: School transport assistance program for students with disabilities

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