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Registered in England No 4174235. Collingwood Insurance Services (UK) Ltd, Collingwood House, Redburn Court, Earl Grey Way, NorthL Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE29 6AR. For security and 03 training purposes calls may be monitored or recorded. Driving Instructor Collingwood Discount Advert.indd 1 07/01/2019 16:52:31 p02_03_Instructor_Issue06.indd 2 14/06/2019 1:45 pm INSTRUCTOR CONTENTS HELPDESK & GUEST LEARNING TO 06 FEEDBACK 17 COMMENT 25 COMMUNICATE We answer your questions on pupils with Jim Milton discusses the importance of Kathy Manson reports back on a points on their provisional licence, negative support for those with diverse needs, and it presentation by Disability Driving Instructors reviews on Yell and children in the car. might be a good idea to undertake training. about teaching deaf people to drive. ADI KING’S GETTING YOUR 07 NEWS 18 COMMENT 28 PUPILS MOBILE Rise in drivers having licences revoked, NCP Edmund King OBE looks into the issue Carly Brookfield speaks to disability makes £700,000 a year from overpayments, of why pass rates for the theory test have motoring charity Motability about its nationwide London plans 20mph speed limit and more. dropped. programme to help disabled drivers. CHIEF EXECUTIVE MEETING YOUR TAKING 16 REPORT 21 NEEDS 31 CONTROL Carly Brookfield believes we need more Olivia Baldock-Ward discusses training Kathy Manson visits He-Man in Southampton education on training students with diverse drivers with diverse needs and reflects on what to find out more about the company and its needs. her own experience in this field has taught her. recent expansion. 21 COVER FEATURE 31 04 Driving Instructor p04_05_Instructor_Issue06.indd 1 14/06/2019 1:51 pm OLD MONTH FINAL 35 HABITS 48 IN NEWS 70 WORD Tom Harrington looks at the health risks Worried behind the wheel, England’s favourite New research from Brake indicates an associated with older drivers and also the driving roads, dad cars with the most street increase in aggressive driving around cyclists economic and social benefits of the car. cred and more. over the past fi ve years. LOSE THE DIAMOND 40 NERVES 51 COMMENT Follow us Kev and Tracey Field from Confident Drivers Chloe Denny takes a look at different types share their tips for learner drivers experiencing of sunglasses and explores the best lenses to facebook.com/ nerves during their driving test. wear when driving. drivinginstructorsassociation CUSTOMISED ADAPTING twitter.com/the_DIA 42 COACHING 52 VEHICLES James Whalen gives us a brief overview of Carly Brookfield explores the wide variety of youtube.com/user/ dyslexia and outlines some advice that might car adaptations for disabled drivers available drivinginstruction help when teaching dyslexic people to drive. on the market. 25 35 47 driving Driving Instructor 05 p04_05_Instructor_Issue06.indd 2 14/06/2019 1:51 pm HELPDESK HAVE A QUESTION & FEEDBACK OR COMMENT? Call the ADI helpdesk Mon to Fri 8am–6pm or send your questions and comments to 11, Gleneagles Court, Brighton Road, Crawley RH10 6AD or I have a pupil who I am about to start training. [email protected] Q I have done a licence check via GOV.UK and found that they have seven penalty points for two separate offences. The offences are IN10 020 8686 8010 and LC20 and both happened in July 2016. The website says they are due to expire in July this year but won’t be removed fully until July next year. Is this right and can I start training them? The IN10 is an insurance offence and the LC20 is a A licence offence. More specifically IN10 is ‘Using a vehicle uninsured against third party risks’ and LC20 is ‘Driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence’. Both are very serious offences and naturally this would be worthy of a discussion and training put in place to help prevent further offences from happening. Aside from this, you can begin training with more than six penalty points. This seems to be quite a popular topic at the moment among ADIs. The confusion seems to be with the New Driver Act where a maximum of six penalty points in the first three years of passing their test will see the licence being cancelled and the driver needing to start again with applying and paying for a new provisional licence and taking their theory and practical tests again. One of my students is a mum and sometimes The GOV.UK website provides the following information: “Any penalty points on your provisional Q struggles to get childcare for her young child.