Accessing Positive Activities: Innovative solutions for young people's bus travel

The NYA commissioned research to explore potential solutions to the problems faced by young people using public transport, specifically buses, to access 'positive activities', education, and employment.

Aiming High for Young People, the ten year strategy for positive activities, has begun to offer guidance for local authorities to address the issue of young people and transport. In particular, it suggests:

"In fulfilling their statutory duty to ensure young people's access to positive activities, (local authorities) will want to exploit the full range of options open to them to improve young people's access to transport. For instance, some successful local authorities choose to

• Subsidise young people's travel
• Enter into partnerships with local transport providers to develop ways to better serve the needs of young people, or
• Broker and commission community transport to make the most of any un-used capacity" (DCSF, 2007, p58)

This research aims to support authorities in achieving this aim by:

• providing a clear outline of the issues faced by young people using buses (or wanting to use buses) to access positive activities;
• examining the current links between Transport planning and Children's Services planning;
• Exploring solutions implemented by the statutory/voluntary sector and determining the key lessons from such schemes that may be applicable to all local authorities.

Associated reports available for downloading:

Accessing Positive Activities: Full Report

Accessing Positive Activities: Executive summary

Travel by bus - Summary report for young people

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