Annual Review & Survey                           

The Annual Review

Letters and forms will be sent in March 2010 to schools to schools with approved travel plans.

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When a school submits a School Travel Plan for approval, it commits to carrying out an annual review in a specified month each year. This should generally involve a meeting of the school’s travel plan working group. The main agenda point of the meeting should be to look at the plan’s targets and action plan to establish how much progress has been made. New targets and actions should be established.

 

Your School Travel Plan Advisor will supply you with a form to document this (see below), and to ask you for feedback on difficulties and successes experienced. This allows us to pass on your concerns to the appropriate people and to keep your travel plan “live”. 

In some circumstances, when a school has expanded, moved site, or amalgamated with another school, we might ask you to carry out a more detailed review, or even re-write the plan. Your School Travel Plan Advisor will naturally guide you through the process.

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School Travel Plan review form

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School Travel Plan Review Form

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The Annual Survey

The results of this are used by the school and us to assess how much modal shift has taken place over the past year, and can help to indicate whether targets have been met. For the second successive year statistics from the census in January 2009 show that fewer pupils in Kent schools are using the car to get to school, and the numbers walking and cycling are increasing. Generally, schools with approved travel plans are also generally doing better with regard to sustainable transport than those without plans.  It is therefore vital that the figures supplied are up to date. Schools with travel plans are required to provide mode of travel data as part of the school census, so realistically, data needs to be gathered on this in the autumn term in order to provide information in the January census. Please see guidance on carrying out this survey below.

Annual survey and census return guidance

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Guidance on the Annual Survey and Census Return

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Author: School Travel Plan Administrator  | Published: 11-9-08  | TOP