We are a group of parents and carers campaigning to ensure appropriate school transport provision for young people over 16 with special educational needs and disabilities in Leeds.

In October 2024 Leeds City Council Executive Board voted to change their transport policy for post 16 learners with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities. The new policy came into effect this year and many young people and their families are now without vital home to school transport with effect from September 2025.

While some young people can travel more independently, which is fantastic, this is not the majority of the young people impacted by these changes.

Some young people simply will not be able to get to school or college, parents and carers will have to reduce their working hours or stop working altogether, families who have more than one child in different schools cannot be in two places at once, how many more private cars will now be on the roads leading to increased congestion and pollution... the long term effects of this policy will be devastating.

We have tried to talk to Leeds City Council officers to ask them to reconsider the policy changes but with no success.

We are campaigning to ensure some of the most vulnerable young people in our city can access the education that, by law, they have to attend and which is their right (Article 2, Protocol 1 of the Human Rights Act).

We are raising funds to help us create campaign materials such as placards, posters, leaflets and petitions. We would also like to seek legal advice to launch a legal challenge to this policy relating to disability discrimination under The Equality Act 2010 and the United Nations Convention on Disability Rights.

Please help us to campaign to ensure out young people can get to school or college safely, as independently as possible and without undue stress or financial loss to families.

Thank You!