Driver Vehicle Standards Agency
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
This guide is sometimes called the approved training body (ATB) manual.
-
What compulsory basic training is, who can deliver it, information about this manual.
-
The law about providing compulsory basic training (CBT), applying to register as an approved training body (ATB), and making changes to your ATB.
-
The different types of instructor authorisation, what it means to be a fit and proper person, Disclosure and Barring Service checks, instructor certificates and monitoring your instructors.
-
How to get your site approved for compulsory basic training (CBT), including planning permission, rules for using the site and inspections.
-
Pre-course trainee checks, the compulsory basic training (CBT) syllabus, trainee to instructor ratios, automatic machines and dealing with complaints.
-
Issuing certificates, ordering more, making mistakes on certificates, reporting lost or stolen certificates, and issuing replacement certificates.
-
Rules for riders, how instructors qualify, and instructor to trainee ratios.
-
How to report training incidents, including the deadline for doing it, and who you have to report them to.
-
What gets monitored, how standards checks work, having your approval cancelled, and appealing a decision.
-
Legal requirements, motorcycles with sidecars, motor-tricycles, speedometers, using dipped headlights during training, and trade plates.
-
Rules for the type of driving licence learner riders need, including UK and foreign licences, photocard licences and rules for direct access and progressive access.
-
Book and manage riding tests for your pupils, use DVSA motorcycle manoeuvring areas for training, offer introductory assessments prior to CBT, and train members of the public to become down-trained instructors.
-
What DVSA will do if rules are not followed, the representations process, making an appeal against a decision.
-
The conditions that you will have to follow if you want to provide compulsory basic training, the 5 elements that make up an approved training course, and contact details for DVSA, DVLA and HSE.