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Pupil Transportation in
Special Education
Kinderrechtencommissaraat
The Flemish Office of the Children's Rights
Commissioner
Bottlenecks: duration of the
ride
Entiteit
Aantal
ritten
Aantal
leerlingen
Ritten >
220 min.
Leerlingen
> 220 min.
%
leerlingen
Antwerpen
413
11.006
137
503
4.57%
VlaamsBrabant
234
5.208
41
64
1.23%
Limburg
238
6.839
31
57
0.83%
Oost369
Vlaanderen
8.888
49
128
1.44%
West310
Vlaanderen
8.687
55
139
1.60%
TOTAAL
40.628
313
891
2.19%
1.564
Early start (6h- 6,30h) – late at home (18h - 18.30h)
Bottlenecks: supervisors
1 supervisor for 20-50 children
No time for support or care
Low educational background
 No budget
 Training only organized on District level
 No obligation to follow trainingcourses
What happens when there are conflicts?
 No body for mediation: need for coordination
Bottlenecks: communication
What about communication about ‘little,
daily concerns’?
Supervisors are unaware about specific
situation of children
Communication between busdriver and
children is problematic
 Many shifts of drivers
 Some of the drivers don’t speak Dutch
Rules are inapproriate for children
 No food – no drinks – no games
Recommendantions (1)
Maximum duration of busride 2 hours
Making bus together:
 Rules too strongly from adult perspective
 Rules too little account for specificity of
group of children
Train the supervisors
 Structural imbedded training
 Greater attention for how to deal with
children (with disabilities)
More supervision op larger buses
Recommendations (2)
Improve communication parents – supervisors
 Central contact at school
 Central contact at bus company
Provide a good range of schools for special
education + put more effort in implementing
inclusive education
Provide special care for disadvantaged
children
CRUNCH (Children’s Rights Lunch)
Lunch
 MPs, manager of administration (Education),
advisers of minister of Education and minister of
Mobility, manager of buscampany, representatives
of schools
Movie of boy on his daily bustrip (5 min)
Willingness to change policy
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New rules on buses (allow to drink)
Better training of supervisors and busdrivers
Renewal of old buses
New computerprogram to organise bus rides
Scientific study how to deal with mobility