Other assistance available for post-16 travel
You can receive assistance with post-16 travel from a number of other sources.
These include:
- travel support from schools and colleges
- Travel York
- the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund
- young parents and Care to Learn
Travel support from schools and colleges
York College and Askham Bryan College provide a transport service for its young people.
Services are available to Fulford, Huntington and Tadcaster Grammar Schools on vehicles contracted by the local authority. Where young people are not eligible for assistance under the authority’s policy they can occupy seats on a concessionary basis if places are available. Details of these services and concessionary fares can be found on the York Pullman website.
Travel York
Information is available on the iTravel website about public transport options including bus routes and timetables also all bus operators’ fares and passes which can be purchased to travel in the City of York area.
The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund
The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund (GOV.UK) provides financial support to help young people overcome specific barriers to participation so they can remain in education.
There are 2 types of 16 to 19 bursaries:
- A vulnerable bursary of up to £1,200 a year for young people in one of the defined vulnerable groups below:
- in care
- care leavers
- in receipt of Income Support, or Universal Credit in place of Income Support, in their own right
- in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit and Disability Living or Personal Independence Payments in their own right
- Discretionary bursaries which institutions award to meet individual needs, for example, help with the cost of transport, meals, books and equipment. To be eligible for the discretionary bursary young people must:
- be aged 16 or over but under 19 at 31 August 2024 or
- be aged 19 or over at 31 August 2024 and have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
- be aged 19 or over at 31 August 2024 and continuing on a study programme they began aged 16 to 18 (‘19+ continuers’)
- be studying a programme that is subject to inspection by a public body which assures quality (such as Ofsted), the provision must also be funded by either a Government funding agency or the local authority
Schools and colleges are responsible for managing both types of bursary. Young people who want to apply for support from the bursary fund should contact their chosen school or college to make an application.
Young parents and Care to Learn
If you're a young parent under 20, Care to Learn can help pay for your childcare and related travel costs, up to £160 per child per week, while you’re learning.
Care to Learn can help with the cost of:
- childcare, including deposit and registration fees
- a childcare ‘taster’ session (up to 5 days)
- keeping your childcare place over the summer holidays
- taking your child to the childcare provider
Types of child care
The childcare provider must be Ofsted registered and can be a:
- childminder
- pre-school playgroup
- day nursery
- out of school club
If your child needs specialist childcare, the provider must also be on the Care Quality Commission’s register for specialist provision.
If you want a relative to get Care to Learn for looking after your child they need to be both:
- providing registered childcare for children they’re not related to
- living apart from you and your child
Payments
Childcare payments go directly to your childcare provider. Before your childcare provider can be paid:
- your childcare provider needs to confirm your child’s attendance
- your school or college needs to confirm that you’re attending your course
Payments for travel costs go to your school or college - they’ll either pay you or arrange travel for you.
Attendance
Payments will stop if:
- you stop attending your course
- you finish your course
- your child stops attending childcare
Eligibility
You can get Care to Learn if:
- you’re a parent under 20 at the start of your course
- you’re the main carer for your child
- you live in England
- you’re either a British citizen or a national of a European Economic Area (EEA) country
- your course is publicly funded (check with your school or college)
- your childcare provider is registered with Ofsted or the Care Quality Commission
Type of course
Care to Learn is only available for courses in England that have some public funding.
This includes courses that take place in:
- schools
- school sixth forms
- sixth form colleges
- other colleges and learning providers, including Foundation Learning
- your community at Children’s Centres