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<p>To help increase practical driving test availability, the Driver and Vehicle Standards
Agency (DVSA) is recruiting more than 300 driving examiners across Great Britain,
including in the Erith and Thamesmead area. The DVSA’s examiner recruitment campaigns
continue to be successful but, like many employers, the DVSA is finding the job market
extremely competitive. As it moves through each recruitment campaign, the DVSA will
continually review and make changes and improvements to its recruitment and selection
process, and training courses.</p><p> </p><p>The DVSA is working hard to provide as
many practical driving test appointments as it can, with several measures in place
to do this.</p><p>These include:</p><ul><li>offering a national recovery allowance
and annual leave buy back to driving examiners;</li><li>asking all those qualified
to conduct tests, but who do not do so as part of their current day job, to return
to conducting tests where capacity allows;</li><li>conducting out of hours testing
(such as on public holidays and weekends); and</li><li>resuming the number of driving
tests per day to seven for each full-time examiner.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The DVSA has
launched a ‘Ready to Pass?’ campaign to improve learners’ understanding of how they
can assess their own readiness for test. An open day was held on 16 October in Erith
and Thamesmead for customers to meet driving examiners and find out more about being
test ready.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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