Hi Everyone, General message for all as this question has been asked more than once. In the event of severe weather conditions, lessons may need to be cancelled. The trigger for this type of cancellation is if the local test centre cancels operations eg Road Safety Visibility of Signs & Markings (Some test candidates find out at the test centre) In recent years, insurance companies have been more critical of instructors leaving them liable to increased claims for damage to vehicles when driving conditions have been 'sub-optimal'

When these changes are happening
We will need to work with Parliament to change the law to allow us to introduce these changes. We plan to introduce these in summer 2023.
We will provide you with regular updates on our progress and will contact you and your pupils when the date is confirmed.
How we plan to work with you
We also consulted on mandating the displaying of certificates when you take your pupils to test and providing consumer information to learner drivers. These measure will require changes to legislation in Parliament, the timetable to do this is still to be determined.
We know that some of you may be concerned about how some of these measures will affect you and the driving instructor industry.
In the coming days, we will publish a blog post to talk about how we plan to work with you and the driving instructors National Association of Strategic Partnership (NASP) to:
• raise the recognition of the ADI certificate and the professionalism of qualified ADIs
• understand and overcome the barriers to displaying ADI certificates
• start to explore what consumer information that you would support being made available to help learner drivers and their family and friends to make informed choices
We will inform you when the blog post is published.
Other measures
The other measures that were consulted on were:
• exploring changes to how we carry out the eyesight tests
• mandating ADIs displaying their certificate on test
• providing better information to learner drivers about driving instructors and their performance
• explore creating digital pass certificates for practical and theory tests
You can read through the results of the consultation on all these initiatives in the results reports.
The other interventions will be introduced when parliamentary time allows.
Ready to Pass? Campaign
In February 2023 over 1 in 5 learner drivers used the campaign to help them to prepare for their driving test and 94% of them found the content on the campaign website useful – which includes:
• explaining the 27 skills on the driver's record and the 5 levels of progress you will make through each skill
• debunking some of the most common driving test myths
• explaining what we recommend should be in a mock driving test
• providing practical tips on managing driving test nerves and giving more information about how and where to learn mindfulness techniques
If your pupils haven’t already used the campaign website to help them prepare, encourage them to go and view it. It includes simple checks for them to do to see if they are ready for their test.
We know that 72.8% of ADIs we asked are already using the resource on the site to support their pupils and carry out checks to make sure they are ready to take their test and encourage those who are not, to delay.
Visit the ‘Ready to Pass?’ website.