First name
Stephanie
Last name
Riches
Organisation name
Community Transport Association (CTA)
Type of member
Association
Describe your organisation
The CTA is a national membership association which leads and supports community transport to be successful and sustainable in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It provides leadership by promoting community transport and influencing the development of better strategy, policy, regulations and investment at all levels of government.
It provides support by advocating high standards of practice and providing advice, information, training and hands-on support that helps operators work to these standards.
Community transport enables people to live independently, participate in their community and to access education, employment, health and other services. It uses and adapts conventional vehicles to do exceptional things – always for a social purpose and community benefit, but never for a profit.
Using everything from mopeds to minibuses, typical services include voluntary car schemes, community bus services, school transport, hospital transport, dial-a-ride, wheels to work and group hire services. Community transport is responsive, accessible and flexible.
The CTA administer a number of driver and passenger assistant training schemes designed to make appropriate training, assessment and accreditation available for voluntary sector organisations, local authorities, care providers and educational establishments.
As part of our commitment to road safety and to the European Road Safety Charter will continue to run our training schemes for the coming three years.
The training schemes which we administer have refresher training built in. This allows for any updates in the law or good practice which might have come in since their last training course as well as being able to address any bad driving habits that might have started to crept in. All trainers (roughly 3500) will have been re-trained in 2015/16 as their certificates hold a two year expiry and all drivers/passenger assistants (Over 100,000) will be re-trained between 201-2019 as their certificate holds a four year expiry with the new round of training being introduced in 2017.
When attending their refresher not only will they be marked on their driving skills and their ability to transport people with disabilities but they will be sitting a theory paper which has been written for this round of training.
The CTA (Community Transport Association)also administer a further course; 5 Steps to Safety; a fire and evacuation course. We feel this is working towards our objective of improving road safety as this course involves what to do if a vehicle fire does occur and the safest and quickest way to evacuate the vehicle.
On any of the training courses above attendants will receive a training handbook which includes all the information they have received on the course and more to allow them have somewhere for reference in the future.
The CTA has an in house training team who promotes the training schemes and liaises with the trainers to ensure they are getting the correct information or any help they require. We have also got over 20 training agents who are high level trainers promoting the training scheme country wide.
It provides leadership by promoting community transport and influencing the development of better strategy, policy, regulations and investment at all levels of government.
It provides support by advocating high standards of practice and providing advice, information, training and hands-on support that helps operators work to these standards.
Community transport enables people to live independently, participate in their community and to access education, employment, health and other services. It uses and adapts conventional vehicles to do exceptional things – always for a social purpose and community benefit, but never for a profit.
Using everything from mopeds to minibuses, typical services include voluntary car schemes, community bus services, school transport, hospital transport, dial-a-ride, wheels to work and group hire services. Community transport is responsive, accessible and flexible.
The CTA administer a number of driver and passenger assistant training schemes designed to make appropriate training, assessment and accreditation available for voluntary sector organisations, local authorities, care providers and educational establishments.
As part of our commitment to road safety and to the European Road Safety Charter will continue to run our training schemes for the coming three years.
The training schemes which we administer have refresher training built in. This allows for any updates in the law or good practice which might have come in since their last training course as well as being able to address any bad driving habits that might have started to crept in. All trainers (roughly 3500) will have been re-trained in 2015/16 as their certificates hold a two year expiry and all drivers/passenger assistants (Over 100,000) will be re-trained between 201-2019 as their certificate holds a four year expiry with the new round of training being introduced in 2017.
When attending their refresher not only will they be marked on their driving skills and their ability to transport people with disabilities but they will be sitting a theory paper which has been written for this round of training.
The CTA (Community Transport Association)also administer a further course; 5 Steps to Safety; a fire and evacuation course. We feel this is working towards our objective of improving road safety as this course involves what to do if a vehicle fire does occur and the safest and quickest way to evacuate the vehicle.
On any of the training courses above attendants will receive a training handbook which includes all the information they have received on the course and more to allow them have somewhere for reference in the future.
The CTA has an in house training team who promotes the training schemes and liaises with the trainers to ensure they are getting the correct information or any help they require. We have also got over 20 training agents who are high level trainers promoting the training scheme country wide.