Personal Transport Budget

What is a Personal Transport Budget?

A Personal Transport Budget is a type of travel assistance that gives students and their families the flexibility and independence to arrange their own travel between home and school. This Havering travel assistance option helps students make the most of the other resources and support available in their community, rather than relying on council organised transport.

You can use your Personal Transport Budget for any travel option that isn't run by the Council, including:

• To pay for fuel and/or the cost of running a family vehicle that is used to transport a student to school.
• To pay towards the cost of booking a taxi or sharing a taxi with other students.
• To pay for another person to take or transport the student.
• To pay for another person to take a sibling to school, freeing a parent/guardian to transport the student.
• To pay towards the cost of breakfast clubs or after-school clubs, allowing the parent/guardian to transport the student.
• To pay towards the cost of travel passes for other children in the family so that they can travel to and from school, allowing the parent/guardian to transport the student.
• To pay for a travel pass for the student.
• To pay for childcare for another child to allow a parent/guardian to take the student to school.
• To join up transport options with other parents (e.g. car share), thereby encouraging a sense of community.

Conditions for using Personal Transport Budget

You can only use your Personal Transport Budget for your child’s travel to and from school. It can’t be used for anything else that isn’t linked to getting your child to school.

If you’d like to learn more about how Personal Transport Budgets work, what you can use them for, and how to apply, please read Havering’s Travel Assistance Policy, which can be found in the download section on this page.