{"id":74062,"date":"2016-09-12T15:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3d86ed86eef7930254949f7339dde10a"},"modified":"2016-09-12T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:13:05","slug":"news-story-dvsa-taxi-driving-tests-to-end-in-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74062","title":{"rendered":"News story: DVSA taxi driving tests to end in December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>People becoming a taxi driver in around 200 council areas have to pass a <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> taxi driving assessment before they qualify.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> will stop providing this service from 31 December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>If you already have a <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> taxi driving assessment booked, it will go ahead as planned. However, <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> isn\u2019t taking any new bookings for the assessment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/find-local-council\">Contact your local council<\/a> to find out what you need to do to become a taxi driver in your area.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-the-dvsa-assessments-are-ending\">Why the <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> assessments are ending<\/h2>\n<p><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> is working hard to reduce the waiting time for driving tests for learner drivers.<\/p>\n<p>To help with this, <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> is focussing on carrying out tests it has a statutory responsibility to provide. <abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> taxi assessments aren\u2019t required by law, so they\u2019re being brought to an end.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> carried out around 23,000 taxi assessments between April 2015 and March 2016.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency\">DVSA<\/abbr> has given guidance to local councils about other organisations that can be used to provide this service, such as road safety charities and driving instructor organisations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will stop providing taxi driving assessments for local councils from 31 December 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}