Guidance

Get a Driver CPC course approved for DVSA earned recognition TfL requirements

Published 6 January 2025

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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When you set up a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) course, you can get it acknowledged by DVSA to show it counts as training for the Transport for London (TfL) Contractual Requirements module of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) earned recognition scheme.

This means that drivers and their employers can prove that the drivers have done training needed for the TfL Contractual Requirements module. They will need this if they want to bid for some contracts, such as:

  • TfL
  • Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS)
  • Construction and Logistics and Community Safety (CLOCS)
  • Work Related Road Risk (WRRR)
  • Direct Vision Standard (DVS)

Eligibility

Your course must follow both of these:

This means your course must be about one of these topics:

  • driving safely and sustainably (environmental awareness training courses)
  • licence obligations and responsibilities
  • counterterrorism and security

What it costs

You will need to pay the usual Driver CPC course application fees.

There is no extra cost to apply to show your course meets the DVSA earned recognition TfL Contractual Requirements syllabus.

How to apply

You can apply if you’re setting up a new Driver CPC course, or if your Driver CPC course has already been approved.

Applying for a new Driver CPC course

Apply to get your Driver CPC training course approved by DVSA.

Enter “DVSA earned recognition training” as the answer for question 2.7 when you apply to get your course approved.

Your course will be approved for one year. After this you’ll need to apply for approval again.

Applying for an existing Driver CPC course

To get an existing Driver CPC course approved as meeting the DVSA earned recognition training TfL requirements, email DVSA. You need to:

  • use the subject ‘DVSA earned recognition training course’
  • include the title of the course
  • include the course reference number

DVSA earned recognition team
dvsaer@dvsa.gov.uk

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