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Driving instructor registration and renewals

Find an approved driving instructor or driving school, registering as a driving instructor and renewing registrations.

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Services

  1. Become a car driving instructor: step by step

    You must become an approved driving instructor (ADI) if you want to charge people for lessons. You can do this as part of a driving school or by setting up your own business.

  2. Renew your approved driving instructor (ADI) registration

    Renew or re-register an approved driving instructor (ADI) registration - online or by post and the fees

  3. Approved driving instructor (ADI) standards check

    When you have to take an ADI standards check (check test), what happens at the test and how your grade is decided

  4. Update your approved driving instructor (ADI) registration

    Update your personal details on the approved driving instructor (ADI) register and publish your details for learner drivers to see

  5. Get a criminal record check to continue being a driving instructor

    Get a criminal record check if you’re an approved driving instructor (ADI) and want to renew your registration

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Guidance and regulation

  1. National standard for driver and rider training
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  2. Approved driving instructor (ADI) standards check: marking sheet
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  3. What's involved in being a driving instructor
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  4. Driving instructor code of practice
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
  5. How to use approved driving instructor (ADI) online services
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
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News and communications

News story

ADI standards check: simpler and clearer grading structure

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

  1. Approved Driving Instructor Registrar webchat: modernising driver training
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Correspondence
  2. Revised code of practice for driving instructors
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • News story
  3. Driving instructor criminal record check changes
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • News story
  4. ADI check test to be replaced from April 2014
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • News story
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Research and statistics

  1. DfI Driver, Vehicle, Operator, and Enforcement Statistics - 2018-19 Quarter 4
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  2. Driver and rider testing and instructor statistics: October to December 2017
    • Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Official statistics
  3. Driver and rider testing and instructor statistics: July to September 2017
    • Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Official statistics
  4. Driver and rider testing and instructor statistics: April to June 2017
    • Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Official statistics
  5. Driver and rider testing and instructor statistics: January to March 2017
    • Department for Transport and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Introducing a compensation scheme for suspended driving instructors
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 31 May 2010
  2. Impact of introducing approved driving instructor standards checks
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Impact assessment
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Contact information for driving instructors on the Find your nearest website
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  2. Registered number of ADIs, trainee licence holders and PDIs and those ADIs not yet qualified
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  3. Approved driving instructors (ADI) on the register over time since 1980
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  4. Trainer booking procedure and form
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
  5. ADI registration fee: breakdown of how it is used
    • Closed organisation: Driving Standards Agency
    • Foi release
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Organisations