ADR/CPC

Peter Smythe:

Can get any CPC hours for the refresher course or is it just the initial one?

Subject to the normal provisos, Yes.

Pete :laughing: :laughing:

SQA have changed a lot of the rules just recently, but IIRC you might have in mind a ‘refresher’ candidate sitting on an initial course, which would then be very beneficial because:

  • 1.) The driver can get the training at ‘normal’ pace,
  • 2.) The driver can have the unexpired portion of his old card ADDED to the 5 year validity of the new card,
  • 3.) Gain (up to) 28hrs DCPC

The above will work provided that:

  • The driver’s old ADR card has less than one year of validity remaining, AND
  • The driver’s old ADR card has not less than 5 weeks validity remaining.

My current ADR card is valid for 5 years and 7 months. :smiley:

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On the other hand, a course notified to SQA as an ADR refresher course has a different programme number and is of a far shorter duration (typically about half that of an initial course) because all of the candidates are supposed to have retained prior knowledge from their ‘initial’ course 5 years earlier.

A pure ‘referesher’ ADR course can cause issues with JAUPT for DCPC for providers because JAUPT will want different submissions for course layout and summary, plus the inevitable extra fees.

Let’s just say that I haven’t taught an ADR refresher that has DCPC hours since DCPC came out in 2009 simply because nobody has asked me to.