Data protection: looking after your pupils’ information

Protecting personal data isn’t the most exciting part of teaching people to drive or ride, but it’s essential for your pupils, your business and your reputation.
What we're doing to set standards for driver training, including the skills, knowledge and understanding needed, and how we're protecting the public from illegal instructors.
Protecting personal data isn’t the most exciting part of teaching people to drive or ride, but it’s essential for your pupils, your business and your reputation.
Over the past few months, we’ve been speaking to the approved driving instructor (ADI) industry and organisations on DVSA’s Official Register of Driving Instructor Trainers (ORDIT) about improving the training...
...email, and phone number to learner drivers looking for driving lessons. It will also display if you’ve: agreed to abide by the voluntary ADI code of practice committed to doing...
...to call. The next job involved the team trying to contact a different driving instructor whose licence ran out in November and hasn't been renewed, despite him continuing to give...
...gives us a good opportunity to meet new faces, catch up with the more familiar faces, and to get feedback on our plans and hear about any burning issues within...
Firstly, I want to thank those of you who have reported an illegal driving instructor to DVSA. These reports are vital and help us to bring the criminals who abuse...
The vast majority of instructors maintain a high professional standard and are a credit to the driver training industry. To make sure this continues, it’s important that DVSA takes appropriate...
It’s been a while since we last published the Despatch ezine, but we’re relaunching in a new blog format that will be much more interactive.