Skills for Logistics and GoSkills have been involved in all the working groups that have been meeting, normally on a monthly basis, dfuring 2006 and 2007. These working groups also have representatives from a number of different stakeholders who have an interest in the Driver CPC, including the RHA, FTA, CPT, VOSA, DVLA, DVTA and the trade unions.
Extensive development work has been required for the extra testing that is required by the Initial Driver CPC. This has included increasing the bank of theory test questions to allow for the increase to 100 multiple choice questions, new hazard perception clips and developing the case studies that are part of the initial qualification. For the practical test, a new 30 minute ‘show me, tell me’ module had to be developed to meet the requirements of the initial driver CPC in addition to an extra 10 minutes ‘on road’ to the driving test.
Another strand to the work as been to develop the process for approving training providers and courses for the delivery of Periodic Training. The Periodic Training working group put together a document called the ‘Guide to Periodic Training for Employers and Training Providers’, designed to inform all those organisations who are interested in becoming approved to deliver Periodic Training. This includes organisations who wish to deliver periodic training ‘in house’ to their own employees as well as those who are selling training to third parties. This document was first published in February 2007 and has undergone 2 subsequent revisions. The two sector skills councils, Skills for Logistics and GoSkills are working in partnership and were tasked by the DSA to develop and administer the approvals process. A jointly run organisation, the Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training (JAUPT), was set up in February 2007, and became registered company in August 2007. This organisation is managed jointly by the 2 SSC’s, and has been approving training centres and courses over the last 15 months.
