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Driver & Vehicle

Standards
Agency

Guidance

Coronavirus: driver
and rider trainer
guidance
Updated 11 January 2021

Contents

Introduction

1. Driving lessons and motorcycle training: local

restrictions

2. Working safely during coronavirus

3. Business support

4. How theory tests and driving tests are affected

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Introduction
This guide is for approved driving instructors
(ADIs), motorcycle trainers, and lorry and bus
(vocational) trainers. It explains:

how local restrictions are affecting driving

lessons and motorcycle training
how you should work safely during coronavirus
what support is available for businesses and
the self-employed
how driving tests are affected by coronavirus

There’s different information for Northern

Ireland.

1. Driving lessons and

motorcycle training: local
restrictions

England
You must not provide driving lessons or
motorcycle training in England because of the
national lockdown.

You can supervise someone from your household

or support bubble during an essential journey
during the national lockdown.

Other pages on GOV.UK will be updated with

this information as soon as possible.

Scotland
You must not provide driving lessons or
motorcycle training in mainland Scotland because
of the temporary lockdown.

You can supervise someone from your household

or support bubble during an essential journey
during the temporary lockdown.

Driving lessons and motorcycle training can take

place in areas in protection level 3.

Wales
You must not provide driving lessons or
motorcycle training in Wales it’s in alert level 4.

You can supervise someone from your household

or support bubble during an essential journey in
alert level 4 areas.

2. Working safely during

coronavirus
The government has published guidance about
working safely during coronavirus. It includes:

guidance for people who work in vehicles

cleaning your workplace safely
keeping records of staff, customers and visitors
to support NHS Test and Trace

Wear a face covering in Scotland

You and your pupil must wear face coverings
during driving lessons and practice sessions.

If you do not wear a face covering, you must have a

good reason, for example:

you have a physical or mental illness,

impairment or disability
wearing it would cause you severe distress
you and the person you’re teaching live in the
same household

Wearing glasses does not count as a good reason.

You can be fined £60 if you do not wear a

face covering during a driving lesson in
Scotland. This will be reduced to £30 if
you pay within 28 days.

Read detailed information from the Scottish

Government about driving lessons.

Detailed guidance about working safely

Representative organisations have published
detailed guidance about working safely during
coronavirus.

Check the guidance for:

car driving instructors - from the National

Associations Strategic Partnership (NASP)
motorcycle trainers - from MCIA Ride and the
Driving Instructors Association
vocational trainers (PDF, 165KB) - from the
National Vocational Driving Instructors
Register

3. Business support
Coronavirus support is available to businesses
and self-employed people.

What to do if you’re self-employed and

getting less work or no work.

Find coronavirus financial support for your

business.

You can read more information about business

support from the Scottish Government and Welsh
Government.

4. How theory tests and driving

tests are affected
There’s separate guidance about how theory tests
and driving tests are affected by coronavirus. It
explains:

how local restrictions are affecting tests

what changes your pupils can expect when
they take their test

Check the guidance about:

theory tests
driving tests

Driving test centre waiting rooms

Not all driving test centre waiting rooms are open
because of coronavirus.

There are temporary rules for using waiting rooms

which are open.

Check which driving test centre waiting rooms are

open and the rules for using them.

Sending information to the NHS Test and

Trace service
DVSA will share your details and your pupil’s
details with the relevant NHS service if a DVSA
member of staff you had close contact with both:

develops coronavirus symptoms within 48

hours of your driving test
tests positive for coronavirus after their
symptoms developed

There’s more information in the privacy notices

for:

booking and managing a driving test

ADI registration and services

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