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Safeguarding students on the school run


When reference is made to the “pupil journey”, most educators instinctively think of a child’s progress upward through their school. But for the pupils themselves, the most relevant journey to them on a day to day basis is the one that they make from home to school, and back again, five days a week.


How safe are our school buses?


Students quickly become accustomed to life “on the buses”, with the regular commute providing an opportunity for unsupervised social interaction, reinforcement of pupil–instigated hierarchies and, of course, catching up on homework that really should have been done earlier. But whatever our own memories of our time on the school bus might be, schools need to recognise the increasing importance of ensuring that their school transport services are compliant with safeguarding and welfare regulations.


The Education Act 2002 makes it clear that LEAs, schools and FE institutions are all required to safeguard and promote the welfare of children for whom they are responsible. DfE guidance is similarly clear that this requirement does extend to home to school transport services. The exact details of which services fall in scope of the Act are unclear, but every school is seeking to exceed rather than merely meet safeguarding requirements, and school transport is under the spotlight at present.


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