SP5 Response Response Pending

Taxi company and school safeguarding arrangements

Recommendation

The Department for Transport should ensure that local authorities establish effective arrangements between licensed taxi companies and schools. These should enable school safeguarding teams to access taxi booking information where relevant to a legitimate safeguarding or risk concern relating to a child who should be at school.

Published Evidence Summary
The following publicly available evidence relates to this recommendation:
No formal government response has been recorded for this recommendation. No independent verification has been carried out.
Sources
Based on tracking data in the inquiry database.
How was this evidence gathered?
Evidence searched by baseline-data-v1 on 26 May 2026
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Jurisdiction
UK-wide
Response
Response Pending

No government response recorded.

Source
Report The Southport Inquiry Report: Phase 1 13 Apr 2026
Responsible Bodies
Department for Transport Primary
Recommendation age 0.1 yrs
Last formal update No formal updates