{"id":513993,"date":"2026-04-05T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513993\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:45:08","slug":"graduated-driver-licensing-instructors-given-no-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513993\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduated driver licensing: Instructors given &#8216;no information&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Boyles from the Northern Ireland Approved Instructors Council said he had concerns about the &#8220;finer&#8221; details of what instructors will be expected to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told Stormont&#8217;s infrastructure committee that the council had requested seminars from the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA) to explain how the system will work in practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But at this present moment in time, no dates have been set,&#8221; added Boyles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told assembly members (MLAs) that the council only learned that the changes were being introduced when they were made public by the minister in a news announcement in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if he thought the proposed timeframe for putting the changes in place was reasonable, Boyles said it depends on how quickly information is released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As long as instructors are going to be informed with all aspects of GDL (graduated driver licensing), what is expected of the instructor, the pupil and the parents&#8217; side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If we get all that and can get that out to the industry&#8230; there&#8217;s a slim possibility instructors could be ready for 1 October.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Boyles from the Northern Ireland Approved Instructors Council said he had concerns about the &#8220;finer&#8221; details of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}