ATCO Education Transport Conference, June 2026.

The 2026 Annual ATCO conference bought together 120 transport professionals from across the country.  The 2-day event provided a fantastic networking opportunity for attendees to meet with local authority colleagues, industry experts and representatives from the DfE, as well as our corporate sponsors.  There was a chance to share knowledge and best practice,  as well as to discuss other challenges and opportunities faced by our sector.

Sessions included:

• Managing the day-to-day challenges of home to school transport
• Tackling rising costs of SEND transport
• Expanding in-house transport provision
• SEND reforms
• School transport category management
• Impact of devolution and local government reform on transport delivery
• Passenger assistants training
• Using IT systems to help manage transport planning and provision