Learner Driver Week

The ADINJC is supporting Learner Driver Week in association with Young Marmalade

Our mission at Learner Driver Week is to educate, inspire, empower, and champion the 7.8 million provisional licence holders in the UK: guiding them on their journey to test success and a lifetime of safe driving.

Young Marmalade is also running Driving Instructor of the Year 2017 as part of the week.

Fancy winning an Amazon Echo? Ask your pupils to nominate you:

https://www.learnerdriverweek.co.uk/

 

 

The DVSA have published it’s first Annual Review  covering  2016/17  it sets out some of the work they’ll be doing in 2017/18.

They’ve also published an Annual Report and Accounts 2016/17 setting out what they have achieved in the year.

The points of interest from both documents are:

“For qualified ADIs we’ll increase the overall number of standards checks we carry out, targeting poor performance and those ADIs who haven’t yet undergone a new standards check.”

 We’ll continue to use intelligence and disruptive operations to target fraudsters and other law-breakers. Our 3 units – intelligence, criminal analysis and strategic traffic management – will identify high-risk vehicle operators and MOT garages, and illegal driving instructors. The information our units gather will tell us what illegal activity is occurring, and where we need to target our enforcement to take non-compliant individuals and operators off the road.”
“Demand for car practical tests has been increasing, leading to a significant rise in waiting times. Reducing waiting times has therefore been a priority for the Agency throughout the year. Although the challenging target to reduce the average waiting time for the whole year to 7.4 weeks was not achieved, the Agency successfully reduced the in-month average waiting time to 6.0 weeks in March 2017. “
The DVSA has announced changes this week to the “Find your Nearest Facility” this includes options to link to your website as well as displaying your Standards check grade and score.

Your views on this are important to us in order that we can fully represent our membership.

Do you find any value in being on FYN? And if so will you be adding your grade and score?

At the last Association meeting, there was a discussion regarding the publication of pass rates – and if – at some point in the future – the DVSA  moves towards publication of ADI pass rates, whether ADIs should protest by removing their badge when pupils are attending for test.

The meeting was divided on the issue, but we would like to have your view on whether you feel pass rates should be published, and if not whether you would support such a protest.

We would be grateful if you would take a few minutes to complete this survey.

Making the driving test more reflective of real life driving

Read here about how and why the new driving test is more reflective of real life driving.

Find out how the reversing manoeuvres are being changed and which satnav will be used in the test starting on December 4th 2017

Click here for the blog by Neil Wilson 

The ADINJC is delighted to announce that Smart Driving is to become a sponsor.  We have always had a close relationship with Smart Driving and are delighted to take this to another level.

John Farlam fo Smart Driving said today –

“SmartDriving are happy to announce that we will be joining the sponsors of ADINJC from July 2017.

I created SmartDriving in 2001 and operated successfully as a one-man business servicing the needs of instructors nationwide until around 2007 when I teamed up with Graham Lucas, we later brought in Adam Bragg to complete the management team and have since gone from strength-to-strength to reach our current position as the UK’s leading ADI training provider.

Many ADINJC members will know me from my presentations at ADINJC conferences and will have met Graham and Adam at our conference trade stands. We are strong supporters of ADINJC because we believe that the team offer an independent voice to instructors – not available from any other organisation. We value the work that all of the ADINJC volunteers do to help instructors directly and the work that they do to help the industry as a whole via their work with the DVSA and NASP.
We have always supported the ADINJC and have been thinking about coming on board as sponsors for quite a while – the decision was finally made this year during the ‘battle’ with the DVSA over the new ADI qualification process. While it was always going to be an unwinnable battle we were so impressed with the huge amount of time and effort put in by the ADINJC team we felt that the time was right to offer sponsorship in addition to moral support.

We hope that along with the other sponsors our support will help the ADINJC to grow and prosper – helping and supporting even more instructors with all aspects of their business and work.

Interesting DVSA sats

Car pass rates vary between men and women and type of test. Overall, women have a higher pass rate in the theory test, whilst men have a higher rate of success in the practical test. THEORY Males: 47% PRACTICAL 51% THEORY Females 51% PRACTICAL 44%

As of March 2017 there were:

39, 413 ADIs on the register which is down 1,2% compared to March 2016 and down 15.4% compared to March 2012. 2,442 approved CBT motorcycle instructors.

Recent Standards Check statistics March 2017: 30.7% High Standard 68% Sufficient and 1.3% fail. Statistics refer to ADIs who have taken a SC since it was introduced on April 7th 2014.

(Their wording not mine on the grades!)

The year is passing by so fast only 3 months to go till our annual conference. There are only 38 tickets left to purchase at our early bird discount of £53 for members and £63 for non-members.

Speakers so far:

DVSA “team” confirmed so far, Mark Magee and John Sheridan.

Sue Baker

Nick Croft

Elizabeth Box

Updates from Speed of Sight our charity for 2018