Recurring school-run rotas across Kingston, Surbiton, Richmond, Hampton, Putney, Esher, Cobham and Wimbledon. Enhanced DBS-checked drivers, infant carriers and boosters fitted in advance for free, one named driver for the whole term, and two free SMS to the parent — one when the car pulls away with your child in it, one when the child walks through the school gate. Eleven years of doing this for South West London families.
A school-run rota isn't a normal cab booking — it's a months-long arrangement where the same vehicle pulls up to the same kerb at the same minute for thirty-six weeks straight. So we treat it like one. You set it up once, we hold the school calendar, the term dates, the INSET days, the half-term breaks and the public holidays, and the runs happen on autopilot until your child finishes the school year.
One named driver per child for the full term, with one named backup who has met your child and knows the morning route. Children settle faster, parents sleep better, and the driver learns the front door, the school gate, and the difference between "running late" and "actually unwell." After eleven years we don't pretend that's a small thing.
DBS-checked · 6+ months tenureThree categories of child seat live in every school-run vehicle — Group 0+ infant, Group 1 toddler, Group 2/3 high-back booster. The right one for your child's age and weight is fitted before pickup so there is no faff at the door, no rummaging in the boot, no time lost to clipping things in. Free with the fare.
Group 0+ · 1 · 2/3 on boardOne the moment your child is in the back seat and the car has pulled away from the kerb — driver name, car registration, live track link. One the moment the driver has watched your child walk through the school gate. Both free, both automatic, both reliable. Most parents say the second SMS is the one they didn't know they needed.
Departure · safely-arrivedMost cab firms will happily take a child if a parent puts one in the back. We don't think that's good enough. School-run drivers go through a separate vetting and training pathway from our standard drivers — and if any of these checks fail, the driver does not get the rota. No exceptions, no "but he's been with us ten years," no quiet workarounds.
School-run safeguarding isn't subcontracted, automated or pushed to a generic ticket inbox. Every concern — from "my child said the driver was on his phone" to a serious safeguarding flag — goes to our named safeguarding lead and is acknowledged within four working hours, with a follow-up call inside 24 hours regardless of severity. Schools that want a copy of the full policy on file for their own records can request the PDF version through dispatch.
Read the full safeguarding policyUK law requires a child seat until age 12 or 135cm, whichever comes first. Every school-run vehicle carries all three categories so the right seat for your child is fitted in advance — you don't bring your own, you don't queue at the door, you don't pay extra. Tell us the age and weight band at booking and we keep that against your rota.
Rear-facing infant carrier with five-point harness, ISOFIX base, sunshade and side-impact protection. Fitted ahead of pickup so the only thing left to do at the door is open the back of the car.
Forward-facing Group 1 seat with five-point harness, side-impact wings, adjustable headrest and ISOFIX + top-tether anchorage. Both reception and Year 1 children fit happily until they outgrow the harness.
Group 2/3 high-back booster — proper side-impact head protection, seatbelt guide, and a height-adjustable headrest. The seat that takes your child from reception age to senior school, no thinking required.
Fares above are computed on the saloon meter — base £3.50 + £2.10/mi + 42p/min waiting, with the doorstep minimum of £8.50 applied where the run is short. MPV column is the same maths × 1.5 multiplier from config/pricing.php. Recurring rotas qualify for the 5% volume discount automatically once monthly bookings cross 40 — most 5-day morning + afternoon rotas hit that by the second week of term. No surge, no school-time surcharge, no extra for booster seats. School not listed? Ring dispatch — we cover any school inside our service area.
Pulled verbatim from a January Tuesday dispatch log. Single-child rota, Norbiton home to Tiffin School on Queens Road, saloon with a high-back booster fitted ahead of pickup. Both SMS messages shown below were sent automatically; nobody had to do anything on the parent side except say yes when the SMS link asked for live-track permission.
5 mornings + 5 afternoons = £85.00/week. A 12-week term works out at £1,020.00; a full 36-week school year at £3,060.00. Hit the 40/month volume threshold by week two and the whole monthly invoice drops by 5% automatically.
No parent app to install, no login, no notifications that don't quite work. Two SMS messages per leg of the run, sent automatically to the parent number on the booking. Live-track link is optional — most parents tap it on the first morning and then never again.
A recurring school-run rota is opened over a 10-minute phone call with the parent rota co-ordinator (a real human — not a form). Once your rota is live, runs happen on autopilot for the rest of the term and a single PDF invoice arrives on the first of each month, net 30. No card on file, no surprise sub-totals, no auto-renew. Pause or stop the rota with 48 hours' notice.
The named schools below are the ones we currently run recurring rotas to — at least one EasyCab vehicle pulls up to each gate every school morning. We cover every other school inside our service area as well; if yours isn't here, ring dispatch and we'll quote a rota.
Most families do school runs with a mix of self-driving, ride-hail apps and the school minibus. None of those are bad — they just don't compare straight across to a recurring rota. Here is what the same morning looks like through three different lenses, with the things that actually matter to a parent in the left-hand column.
"Two boys, two schools, two different time slots. One rota, one driver, one PDF a month. I used to plan the morning at midnight; now I plan it once a term."
Ring the parent rota co-ordinator on the number below. Ten minutes — pickup address, school, child age + weight band for the seat, two parent contact numbers, the morning and afternoon time slots. We hold the rota verbally for 48 hours while you check the maths.
Open 24/7 — ring before 07:30 to set up a rota that starts the next school morning.
Email the rota desk↗Yes — and not the basic level. Every driver on a recurring school-run rota carries an Enhanced DBS certificate with the Children's Barred List check (the same level a teaching assistant or sports coach holds). Re-verified annually. Drivers also complete a 3-hour in-house safeguarding induction before they take their first school rota.
Yes. One named driver per child for the full term, with one named backup who has met your child and knows the route. Main driver does the morning and afternoon run every school day; backup steps in only if the main is ill or on annual leave, and you are told the day before whenever a swap is needed.
Included free. Three categories on board — Group 0+ infant carriers (birth–13kg), Group 1 toddler seats (9–18kg), Group 2/3 high-back boosters (15–36kg) — fitted in advance before pickup. Tell us the age, weight and height at booking. UK law requires a child seat until age 12 or 135cm; we comply automatically and the seat is £0.
Two free SMS to the parent number on the booking. The first the moment the driver pulls away with your child in the back — driver's first name, car reg, optional live track link. The second the moment the driver has watched your child walk through the school gate. Add a third afternoon-pickup SMS if you want it.
Text or ring dispatch before 07:30 (morning) or 14:30 (afternoon) and the booking is cancelled with no charge. After those windows we still cancel but a £5.00 standard cancellation applies — covers the driver who is already three streets away. Recurring rotas have 4 free sickness cancellations per term as a buffer.
Yes. Two siblings fit in a saloon with two booster seats; 3 or 4 siblings travel in an MPV with up to four child seats. Same-rota siblings to the same school pay one fare — Kingston-to-Tiffin works out at around £12.75 one-way for three children, or about £127.50 a week for the full ten morning/afternoon legs.
Yes — recurring rotas qualify for the EasyCab volume discount automatically. Hit 40 rides in a month (any combination of school runs, weekend trips, airport pickups) and the whole monthly invoice drops by 5%. Most 5-day morning + afternoon rotas hit the threshold by week two. Invoicing is monthly, net 30, no card on file.
Tiffin, Tiffin Girls', Kingston Grammar, Surbiton High, Holy Cross in Kingston / Surbiton; King's House, The Vineyard in Richmond; Hampton, LEH, Hampton Court House in Hampton / East Molesey; Putney High, Hurlingham, St Paul's, Ibstock in Putney / Roehampton; Reed's, Royal Kent, ACS Cobham in Cobham; King's College Wimbledon, Wimbledon High, Donhead in Wimbledon. If your child's school isn't named, ring dispatch — we cover any school in our service area.
The driver waits. First 10 minutes after the agreed pickup are free — covers normal end-of-day spill-out, a quick teacher chat, or after-school club ending late. Beyond that the waiting rate kicks in at 42p/min, capped sensibly. The driver SMS's you if your child hasn't appeared by agreed-time + 5 min so you can ring the school. They will not drive away.
Yes. The full EasyCab Safeguarding Policy is at /safeguarding — covers Enhanced DBS verification, in-house induction, named safeguarding lead, no-route-deviation rule, no-stranger-handover rule, vehicle and seat checks, data we keep on each child (the bare minimum, deleted 3 months after the rota ends). Schools that want a PDF for their own records can request one through dispatch.
A 10-minute call sets the rota up. After that it runs on autopilot for the rest of the school year — INSET days off, half-term off, public holidays off, one PDF on the first of each month.