LANSS continues to be part of the Wheels to Work Advisory group and are pleased to report that there was a great response to the employer and employee survey with some really useful data to inform the project plan going forward.
To ensure a complete picture, we have rolled out a further survey, this time aimed at young people / apprentices / students at the stage of considering work or work placements, so that we can better capture transport barriers affecting job or placement access.
The purpose of the consultation is to consider how transport barriers may affect young people when searching for employment in the future and gain their views on different solutions to addressing transport barriers to employment. The survey covers: current travel to college; car access; whether transport limits employment/placement options; willingness to use different transport modes including comfort with shared taxis with colleagues/other businesses/unknown people; acceptable travel times; active travel distances; and whether transport issues push people to seek work outside Cumbria.
Even if you have not considered these issues before please take the time to share your views.
Wheels to Work will use the responses to the survey to guide their next steps in developing a proposed scheme to support rural people to access employment.
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