Transport needs, held as limits
Solo travel, a passenger assistant, wheelchair access and a maximum ride time sit on the pupil as fields, and in the solve as limits.
The explain panel states whether the run meets them.
Home-to-school transport your council can account for
Plan the routes. Hold each pupil’s transport needs as limits. Confirm every pupil by name.
What it does
The compliance register
DBS checks, licences, insurance, MOTs, training and first aid, with lapsed and expiring called out.
The same warning shows on the run’s own manifest.
Every pupil confirmed by name
An officer confirms each pupil by name, and the decision log records who confirmed what.
The parent letter is written from that arrangement; parents are not given a login.
* Demonstration data. Not a real council or a real child.
Driver and parent apps
In development
For drivers
- Today’s runs, and each run stop by stop, in the order the plan set.
- Picked up, no-show and dropped recorded against each pupil, with the time, into the same record the office reads.
- Works without signal: what the driver records is kept on the phone and sent when the signal returns.
- Turn-by-turn directions inside the app, with voice, on the same road data the plan was costed on.
- The vehicle’s position is shared with the office on the dashboard.
In development
For parents and carers
- Their child’s arrangement, as the council published it, with the explanation the council sent.
- When the vehicle is on its way, and an arrival time.
- Notifications when it is on its way, when their child is picked up and when they are dropped off.
- A way to report an absence, so the driver knows to skip the stop and the office sees it.
Isla Turner
This morning
Pick-up about 07:42
From home to Ashenfold Primary School, arriving 08:30
On the way
About 6 minutes
You are the next stop
Expected at your door 07:42
Notifications
07:36 On its way
Yesterday 15:52 Dropped at home
Frequently asked questions
The questions a careful officer should ask.
Which councils already use Routewell?
None. We will not invent a case study. An early council gets founding terms and the people who build the product in the room.
Why is there no price on this page?
A fair price depends on your cohort, your fleet and what your current arrangements cost. One annual price, agreed before you sign. The demonstration is not charged.
How does buying it work under our procurement rules?
Most home‑to‑school planning contracts sit below the Procurement Act 2023 thresholds. Direct engagement, quotations and competitions are all routes we can meet.
What does the future look like?
Next on the plan: an email when a MOT lapses, a pupil cannot be served or a run is late; runs that cover more than one school; road times that know the morning peak.
Further out: a parent app for today’s pickup and delays — the letter still goes — a driver app with the morning’s manifest, and live position so an officer can re-plan at 8:10 without moving everyone already on their way.
Book a demonstration
Forty‑five minutes, your questions first. If you can share a spreadsheet of synthetic or anonymised pupils beforehand, we will run it live so you are judging your problem, not our demo data. Bring the colleague who has to sign the business case.
Prefer email? Write to dan.caws@routewell.co.uk — it reaches the person who builds the product.
Request received.
We will reply within two working days from dan.caws@routewell.co.uk — check your junk folder if nothing arrives.