NEWS
DfE walks away from active travel to school
Mode of Travel removed from School Census in DfE ICES bulletin 50
25th August 2011
In a move described as 'appalling' and 'ridiculous' by Local Authorities (LAs) up and down the country, the Department for Education (DfE) have, after what a DfE officer referred to as purposefully 'limited' consultation, announced that it will no longer ask schools to collect pupil Mode of Travel (MOT) data as part of the School Census.
This unilateral action has shocked the end users of this data - officers working at national, local and individual school level - who make use of this invaluable dataset to ensure evidence based planning and implementation in policy areas as wide ranging as local transport systems and safer routes to schools, increasing physical activity and tackling childhood obesity, the location of new school places and housing developments and not least, the delivery of teaching and learning in the classroom, read more