Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)

About us

JAUPT has become part of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) and is now called the DVSA Training Accreditation team.

We're responsible for:

  • Approving and quality assuring Driver CPC centres and courses
  • Administering the national vocational training (NVT) training scheme for lorry, bus and coach drivers
  • Approving and quality assuring drink-drive rehabilitation scheme courses
  • Taxi driver period training in Northern Ireland, on behalf of the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA)

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Latest updates

26 Oct 2022

DVSA Telephone Downtime

Due to some essential maintenance the DVSA telephone number (01908 787000) for the Driver CPC Training and Accreditation Team will be unavailable between 10:00 - 12:00 on Wednesday 26 October 2022.If...

13 Oct 2022

Updated Contact Details

From 1 October 2022, the Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training (JAUPT) became part of DVSA.TelephoneTo contact us by phone please call 01908 787000. EmailAll emails to a JAUPT email address will...

13 Oct 2022

JAUPT has become part of DVSA

From 1 October 2022 the Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training (JAUPT) became part of DVSA. JAUPT processed applications from training providers for centre and course approvals for Driver Certifi...

01 Oct 2022

JAUPT to become part of DVSA

  From 1 October 2022 the Joint Approvals Unit for Periodic Training (JAUPT) will become part of DVSA. JAUPT processes applications from training providers for centre and course approva...

11 Nov 2021

The Government to review Driver CPC

The Government is carrying out a review of Driver CPC to see how it can be improved to help ease HGV driver shortages. The review will be informed by input from a wide range of stakeholders, including...

22 Jul 2021

Driver CPC Course approval

In January 2021 DVSA/DVA updated the Driver CPC course approval process linking a trainer’s relevant skills, knowledge and experience to the courses they deliver. Since then, over 1100 course ap...

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