Transport Training

 A STEP TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE!

                            

What is Transport training?

Transport training is designed to help people to get more from life by giving them the confidence to travel on public transport with full support or independently.

Being able to access public transport helps students to make their own choices about how they live and what they want to achieve.

Transport training can help overcome barriers to :

· Employment

· Social Inclusion

· Access to Leisure Facilities

· Independent journeys to school /college

How do we help?

The trainer will accompany students on their journeys, providing encouragement and guidance until she feels confident that trainees have developed the appropriate skills.  The  transport trainer will be there to help develop skills such as:

Coping with traffic on major roads, with and without pedestrian crossings

· Confidence in using buses

· How to plan a journey

· Familiarisation of travel routes and timetables.

· Identification of landmarks

· Personal safety

· Money skills

· Life Skills

Who can we help?

We aim to work with a wide range of students with additional needs to enable them to use public transport independently or with full support to gain confidence and help with life skills.

All journeys can start form the students home to make the journey become a real life situation.  We will support the individual in being able to leave their house, walk to the nearest bus stop and catch the relevant bus to a destination that is beneficial for that student. 

These destinations will include work-experience placements, college placements and leisure places of interest i.e.

All Cambria Colleges, Broughton Shopping Park, the cinema or Leisure Centres.

 

 

If you would like to find out more,

Please contact:

Christine Cameron

Transport Trainer

Co-ordinator

 

 

 

 

 

 

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