Wednesday 5th March 2014
Is the skill of driving valued highly enough?
The head of the Driving Instructors Association (DIA) is the latest confirmed speaker for the Young Driver Focus* conference to be held in May 2014.
As CEO of one of the UK's largest driver
education and training bodies, Carly Brookfield describes herself as “a
passionate advocate of the importance of professional driver training in
delivering safer new drivers to our roads, as well as developing the skills of
existing licence holders and road users”.
In her presentation, titled “Driver Education
- Preparing young people for real life on our roads”, Carly will ask whether
the skill of driving is valued highly enough, and therefore is its acquisition
- and the need to continually develop it - taken seriously enough?
She will also examine the issues surrounding
learning to drive and the efficacy of the current system in preparing young
drivers for real life on the roads.
As well as considering what's not working, she
will look at what could work better - and how we should be developing
driver education in the future.
Carly Brookfield is responsible for the day to
day management and strategic development of the DIA Group, and directs a
portfolio of organisations focused on developing driving standards and
standards of driver training, in the UK and internationally.
The DIA is the UK's largest membership
organisation for professional driver and rider trainers, representing more than
11,500 trainers.
*Young Driver Focus
Young Driver
Focus is a collaborative partnership between Road Safety GB
and FirstCar, supported
by Arval who are
providing the venue, technology and refreshments. It is free for Road Safety GB
Academy members to attend. The capacity is around 150 delegates and only a
handful of places remain available.
The conference will look at “cutting young
driver casualties now and in the future”. As this suggests the event will be
forward-focused rather than a retrospective look at young driver collisions and
casualties.
It will be held at The Arval Centre in Swindon
(just off the M4) on Wednesday 14 May 2014, 10.00am – 3.30pm.
For more information contact Nick
Rawlings or Sally Bartrum on 01379 650112.
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