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14.1

The Committee
considered a report of the Executive Director-City Futures
that sets out the aims
of bringing together all school related Active Travel projects
under one team managed by Sheffield City Council to maximise
efficiency. We will use funds to enhance active travel in primary
schools by commissioning external support from additional project
officers to so as to deliver the ModeshiftSTARS award scheme. By
expanding the current Modeshift STARS support provision for
Sheffield Schools, we would be able to maintain and build on the
successes and achievements of 2022 in increasing Active Travel in
schools.  

 

 

14.2

RESOLVED
UNANIMOUSLY: That the
Transport, Regeneration and Climate Policy Committee:

 

 
i.             
Approves the use of funding to support
the continued delivery of the Active Travel in schools
scheme.
ii.           
Approves an increase to the total funding
for the scheme to £289,960.67.
iii.          
Approves the commissioning of additional
external staff to support the delivery of the scheme at a cost of
£273,460.67. 

 

 

14.3

Reasons for Decision

 

 

14.3.1

The
investment in supporting schools to promote and enable active
journeys to school will ultimately help to address the ambitions of
Members and delivery against the requests of the Sheffield public
to improve safety on the journey to school for all.

 

 

14.3.2

The expected
benefits from this project are multiple. Including an increase
in
safety, and
perception of safety, enhancing environmental amenities
and
improving health by
supporting safe active travel movements.

 

 

14.3.3

The programme takes
advantage of utilising external funding sources where
possible to deliver
impactful change to the transport system, considering
environmental,
economic, and societal needs.

 

 

14.4

Alternatives Considered and Rejected

 

 

14.4.1

‘Do
nothing’ has been considered but is not deemed
appropriate.

 

 

14.4.2

Without this
approval Sheffield will see a drastic reduction in resources. From
September, we will go from having a team of three to a single
part-time officer working on the project. This is insufficient
resource to support Sheffield’s 180 schools in any meaningful
way. The impact of this would also include:
 
• a
significant reduction in outputs
• little or no
activities delivered in schools.
• a
significant reduction in the number of schools engaged in
the
project.
• detrimental
impact on the strategic running of the project
• unable to
build on past success due to lack of resource.
• difficulty
in re-engaging with schools in the future once
confidence
has been lost in
SCC to deliver this project.