Apply for school transport assistance

Schools and kura can use Pokapū Waka Kura to apply for the following types of school transport assistance on behalf of their ākonga | students:

• SESTA (Specialised School Transport Assistance)
• SESTA Conveyance Allowance
• Daily Bus Conveyance Allowance.

View school transport assistance information

Schools and kura can use Pokapū Waka Kura to view the following information:

• View their school’s school transport assistance applications.
• (For directly resourced schools only) View their school’s directly resourced school transport assistance payments.
• (For Māori-medium schools only) View their kura Māori-medium school transport assistance payments.

Notify the Ministry

Directly resourced schools can use Pokapū Waka Kura to notify the Ministry of any incidents that occur on their school transport services.

How to get access

You need an Education Sector Logon (ESL) account to use Pokapū Waka Kura. If you do not have one, ask your school's ESL delegated authoriser to create one for you.

Once you have an ESL account, the delegated authoriser needs to add a Pokapū Waka Kura user role:

• For most schools and kura this is Pokapū Waka Kura School User.
• For Directly Resourced (DR) schools and Māori-medium Schools (MMS) who need to view their school transport assistance payment remittance, this is Pokapū Waka Kura School Admin.

Our applications and online systems site has more information about how to access and use Pokapū Waka Kura.

Pokapū Waka Kura | the School Transport Hub – Applications and Online Systems

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