Agenda item - Chairman's Communications

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Chairman's Communications

Minutes:

11.1    The Chairman updated the Committee that in June 2009 BTec and NVQ courses for new taxi drivers were available at no extra cost to the applicants. Applicants could now apply for funding for these courses, even if they had received funding for other courses and most providers were able to fund a percentage of the costs for those who could not access Central Government funding. The Learning and Skills Council had temporarily withdrawn its funding due to concerns about fraud and abuse however.

 

            Officers had considered spreading the costs of payments for these courses to help applicants. If other trainers were required to be identified however, this would require reversing the previous Committee decision and assessing new training materials and methods, which would be at a cost to the Council, although this could be recoverable at a later stage from the applicants.

 

11.2    The Chairman noted position for taxi driver and stated that since that since the last Licensing Committee, officers in the Hackney Carriage Office have suspended two drivers and revoked five drivers licences. Two drivers were also issued with a final warning which will remain on their licence for 5 years. The suspensions were as a result of medical problems.

 


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