Access and equity

The policy information for transport, assistance animals, students with a disability and suitable text and media in schools is below.

Assistance animals

• Assistance animals PDF (575.3 KB)
  Assistance animals DOCX (64.5 KB)
• Risk management plan DOCX (57.7 KB)

Students with disability

Read about students with disability.

Transport for students

You can get assistance for students with special needs to travel to and from school.

Effective from 1 January 2023, the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics in collaboration with this department have revised the following documents.

• Transport for students with special needs - policy PDF (685.5 KB)
  Transport for students with special needs - policy DOCX (830.1 KB)
• Transport for students with special needs - guidelines PDF (688.0 KB)
  Transport for students with special needs - guidelines DOCX (830.2 KB)
• Transport for students with special needs - frequently asked questions PDF (273.6 KB).

For more information, read about transport for students with special needs on the Northern Territory Government website.

To find out the rules for catching a school bus and how to access free public bus travel, go to the Northern Territory Government website.