LGV training funded by career development loans?

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Basically I’m wondering if anyone knows of a trainer/school that accepts Career Development Loans as a form of payment?

Found out from the National Careers Advice Service that these loans can be used to fund vocational training so long as the training provider is registered with the Skills Funding Agency (takes up to 30 days for a company to register). As the funding would then be backed by government, it should be fairly well guaranteed.

If any of the guys that represent training companies have a voice on this, I’d be interested to find out.

When I was looking into booking the training a few days ago with a certain company they were unable to get accepted by the skills funding agency. I later found out this was due to the firm being a broker … glad that didn’t come to pass.

Thanks,
Andy

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Just a slightly different slant on the question: why not approach a school (such as us) who offer finance direct?

We used to deal with CDL but more hassle than it was worth - hence past tense!

Pete :laughing: :laughing:

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The thing with CDL is the deferred repayment start date.

Just been checking out your site Pete and I’m tempted. Not the cheapest I’ve seen, but I like that the head guy gets involved, makes a nice change. Once I get my mother-in-law moved this week & get my eyes tested, will look into it with a view to booking.

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Go and see Pete for a look round the centre and an assessment. You won’t regret it.

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BTW Pete, the Useful Links link on your site seems to be broken :wink:

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Thanks. The site is being looked at tomorrow as the rates have been reviewed with nearly all of them being REDUCED. In fairness, the only massive reductions are on Starter Pack, Driver cpc and CE. But it makes the whole deal extremely competitive.

So feel free to have another look. I’m not very clever at webby things but I’ve got a feeling that feature has never been utilised. Will have a word and find out.

Thanks again - I didn’t know about the prob.

Pete :laughing: :laughing:

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andygt4:
The thing with CDL is the deferred repayment start date.

Just been checking out your site Pete and I’m tempted. Not the cheapest I’ve seen, but I like that the head guy gets involved, makes a nice change. Once I get my mother-in-law moved this week & get my eyes tested, will look into it with a view to booking.

If he really wanted to, Pete could be cheap.

He’s been doing it long enuff to know where he could cut costs. So why doesn’t he?

The thing is with being cheap, it’s an almost constant battle to be the cheapest. As soon as you base your business model on being cheap, someone comes in & undercuts you.

You don’t want cheap, you don’t want expensive, what you want is value for money. Value for money (or VFM) is a mix of only 3 basic things.

In any purchasing decision there are only 3 things to consider. They are :

  1. Price
  2. Product
  3. People

A good business is one where everyone profits, both the customer & the supplier.

If you want VFM then you need to identify which 2 of the 3 things are most important to you, if you concentrate on only 1 then you seldom receive VFM. Ideally you want all 3, IME this is difficult to achieve.

This is the same for everything & anything that you buy. I can give you numerous examples but please try to understand the principle from this one :

If you ever find yourself in a Rolls Royce showroom, it really is difficult to get the actual cost of buying one out of them. Why, because the cost doesn’t or shouldn’t matter !

IMO Pete has the 2 most important things nailed bang on. His product is YOUR test pass & his people are spot on. If you wish to base your purchasing decision on the other thing, which is price, please bear in mind that the business’s that base their model on price alone usually chuck the other 2 out of the window.