IAM RoadSmart successfully granted provisional licence to deliver National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) courses

• · Road safety charity will be able to play a significant role in helping reduce reoffending on roads

Leading road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has become a provisionally licensed NDORS course provider entrusted to carry out national training schemes, it can announce today.

The NDORS scheme is a UK-wide system run on behalf of the police service that allows eligible motorists committing certain minor traffic offences to attend an educational course which they pay for, instead of receiving a fine and penalty points on their driving licence. The scheme is overseen by UKROEd who manage and administer the NDORS scheme on behalf of the police service.

A provisionally licensed course provider is an organisation or body that has been successfully accredited by UKROEd enabling the organisation to tender for a contract to provide these services to a police force. Like all providers, IAM RoadSmart has gone through a robust licensing assessment process to demonstrate the capability to provide the administration to facilitate courses, source trainers and venues to deliver a range of strictly regulated NDORS courses.

It means the charity can play a crucial role in educating offenders, with police forces knowing the money will be reinvested into IAM RoadSmart’s charitable activities.

NDORS originated from a recommendation made by Dr Peter North (Sir Peter North) following publication of a Department for Transport commissioned Road Traffic Law Review of 1988. This report recommended the use of courses as an alternative to enforcement where a drivers’ breach of laws may have resulted from a lapse of concentration or an error of judgement with no serious consequences or high risk.

IAM RoadSmart Chief Executive Officer Mark Armitage said:

“IAM RoadSmart prides itself on being an educator in the road safety arena, and we’re delighted to obtain a provisional licence from UKROEd to enable us to play our part in the national retraining scheme.

“We have many years’ experience in providing drink drive rehabilitation courses, so we feel expertly placed to work with the police in keeping all road users safe by providing other types of essential retraining.

“I’d like to thank UKROEd for placing their trust in us to deliver this, and for recognising the outstanding contribution that colleagues at the charity have made by offering us a licence. We look forward to working closely with police forces.”

ENDS

Notes to editors


For interviews, contact the IAM RoadSmart press office on press.office@iam.org.uk / 020 8996 9777.