Driving instructor registration

Driving Instruction is gated, which means a lesson goes live only after GoSavis has checked your instructor registration. By that we mean current registration as an approved driving instructor, in the name of the person who will teach.

Send the badge or certificate that registration comes with, showing the name it is issued to, the registration number and the date it runs out. Registration is granted to a person, not to a driving school, so where a school lists lessons taught by several instructors, send the registration of the instructor whose lessons you are listing. A trainee licence is not full registration; if that is what you hold, tell us through Feedback in GoSavis Business before you list, so the listing describes what you are permitted to teach.

The register of approved driving instructors is kept by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency, which sets the qualifying tests, the standards check and the renewal cycle. Instructing for payment without being registered, or without a trainee licence, is an offence, which is why this category is gated.

GoSavis does not train, register or assess instructors, and we cannot progress an application with the DVSA on your behalf. While you are waiting, you can write your lessons in GoSavis Business and keep them as drafts.

Send it under Verification in GoSavis Business, where the certificates your categories ask for are listed with the state of each. Attach a PDF, JPG, PNG or WEBP file of up to 8 MB, and give the renewal date printed on the certificate before you attach it, because that is the date GoSavis holds you to. You can send a certificate before you have written a single service, so a business being set up can be checked while it works on the rest.

GoSavis checks the certificate itself before a service in a gated category goes live. While it is with us, the Verification page shows it as being checked, you can carry on writing the service and keep it as a draft, and we email you when there is an update. If we cannot approve what you send, we say why on the same page and you can send a corrected certificate from there.

GoSavis records the renewal date you give and counts the certificate as in force up to and including that day. We tell you about a month before it runs out, again about a week before, and once more the day after it has, each time in GoSavis Business and by email. Once it has run out, it no longer satisfies the requirement and a service in that category cannot be published until a current certificate has been checked. Send the new one from the same page and choose Send a renewal; a service that is already live is not taken down by the date alone.

GoSavis does not arrange, endorse or advise on any of these, and holding one is not a recommendation by us. What we do is check that the business trading on GoSavis in a category that requires one holds it, and that it is still in force.