Challenge to DSA register
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• The future of the Driving Standards Agency's voluntary register of driving instructors could be in jeopardy following the decision by a major training association to set up a rival list.
The Association of Vocational Driver Training Providers (AVDTP) has written to the DSA saying it is boycotting the voluntary register and is setting up its own register from 1 December.
The dispute has arisen because the AVDTP disagrees with DSA proposals to allow the rival Road Transport Industry Training Business Services on to the initial register automatically. All other instruc
tors will have to pass a two-part test before being allowed on.
The AVDTP, which has over 400 members, has devised its own code of conduct but still want the DSA to police its register, with examiners check-testing instructors. However, a DSA spokesman says: "We don't have the resources to monitor somebody else's register as well as our own—we'll take care of ours first."
Nick Smith, an AVDTP member and manager of training firm Roadtrain, says: "We are not knocking the RTITB but our register doesn't discriminate against any person or organisation unlike the DSAs."