{"id":24229,"date":"2020-06-15T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2020-06-15T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:01:24","slug":"dvsa-all-tests-off-until-further-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24229","title":{"rendered":"DVSA: All Tests Off Until Further Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received an email alert from DVSA today (as should most other instructors have done). Basically \u2013 and except for key workers<\/strong> \u2013 all tests are off until further notice. The essential part is reproduced here:<\/p>\n

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Driving instruction and driving tests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other than emergency training and tests for critical workers, driving instruction and driving tests have not yet been able to restart because the risk of transmission of the virus in vehicles is higher.<\/p>\n

In his statement on 10 June, the Prime Minister reiterated that the government will remain cautious and measure the effect of the changes it makes. The Prime Minister explained this means moving slower than we\u2019d have liked in some areas.<\/p>\n

Driving instruction and tests will only restart when the government is confident that the assessment of risk warrants it, subject to the 5 tests and further detailed scientific advice.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I want to re-emphasise that you should continue to limit driving lessons to critical workers who are preparing for an emergency driving test.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once again, I would like to thank those of you who have been able to offer driving lessons to critical workers during these unprecedented times.<\/p>\n

We will, of course, share more information with you as soon as it\u2019s available \u2013 including the dates that driving instruction and driving tests can restart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Any change to this is wholly dependent on what COVID-19 does next, and what the government decides as a result. That is unlikely to occur before July at the earliest, and I have texted all my pupils this afternoon indicating that we are unlikely to be doing lessons before August at the earliest.<\/p>\n

One of my pupils has already received a cancellation email \u2013 and it is a cancellation, not a rescheduled date. That ought to be telling you something.<\/p>\n

I have highlighted in bold the part DVSA emphasises in its email. For anyone too stupid to understand it, it says you should only be giving lessons to key workers who are preparing for a driving test.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am awaiting the usual clowns arguing \u2018yes, but it says should, not MUST\u2019 (a reference to the terminology used in the Highway Code, where the difference is between advice or Law). I\u2019d point out to these idiots that even going against advice can often lead you towards the hard legal aspects. Quite easily. In this case, by working when you shouldn\u2019t you\u2019re probably making the delay for everybody else longer, as you help COVID-19 spread.<\/p>\n

Just remember. Apart from the money-grabbing aspect, there is absolutely no point teaching people at the moment if they cannot book a test. Try as you might to sound philanthropical about it, you\u2019re doing it for you, not them. And it shines through like a beacon. Even if you do go ahead and work \u2013 and it cracks me up to see all these people who\u2019ve been saying we can, and they\u2019re<\/strong> going to start again \u2018on Monday\u2019 every week without fail (but haven\u2019t) \u2013 what will you do once your pupils reach test standard? It\u2019s likely there\u2019ll be no tests until September \u2013 maybe longer if the shit hits the fan again, which you working is likely to help happen \u2013 and that\u2019s three months away.<\/strong> By then you\u2019ll possibly have blown your chances with SEISS (Part 2) and<\/strong> run out of people to teach. And that\u2019s even assuming you can<\/strong> run a full diary right now (with most pupils not being as clueless as you and staying safe), and<\/strong> having to sanitise the car with a gallon of sanitizer every hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received an email alert from DVSA today (as should most other instructors have done). Basically \u2013 and except for key workers \u2013 all tests are off until further notice. The essential part is reproduced here: Driving instruction and driving tests Other than emergency training and tests for critical workers, driving instruction and driving tests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,83,84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-covid-19","category-dvsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}