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The benefits of managing your own transport network are many and varied. Flexibility, choice, higher quality, better safety standards and the opportunity to realise funding surpluses are great incentives to enter the Direct Resourcing programme. However, these benefits must be considered alongside more than fify-five requirements imposed by the government with the introduction of new agreements from 1 January 2009. Luckily these requirements are funded by the government through a transport administration fee and can be easily handled by a transport administration services provider with the appropriate expertise.
The following table summarises your responsibilities and matches them one to an SSTS transport management product. This list contains only the basic requirements imposed by the Ministry and does not include the large number of tasks required to run a high-quality, efficient school bus operation.
| Requirement |
SSTS product |
| Tendering - Schools outsourcing bus services must use an open and transparent tendering process when contracting bus services, including advertising contracts on the government's tendering website |
Transport Light |
| Network agreements - Schools combining to manage school transport must have a formal agreement covering all aspects of the network's operation |
Transport Light |
| Compliance returns - school communities must submit annual returns to the Ministry |
Transport Light |
| Performance management - school communities required to monitor the saftey standards of bus operators and report on results to the Ministry |
Transport Plus |
| Accounting for shared funds - networks managing school transport need to provide the Ministry with detailed summaries of the financial performance of the network |
Total Transport Management |
| Extensions to bus routes - school communities are prohibited from providing assistance to students outside the school's catchment area without meeting certain conditions |
Total Transport Management |
For easy-to-follow advice on how to achieve these results without distracting you from the business of improving the educational outcomes of your school community just make contact with SSTS by clicking here.
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