Our Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) approved drink drivers course is a non-judgmental educational course covering relevant topics around alcohol and drink driving. The course is designed to offer support and to provide information for convicted drink drivers.
Rest assured that we are not attempting to get you to give up alcohol as part of the course. Only to help you never drink and drive again. We appreciate this whole situation you find yourself in can be very distressing, but we cannot provide a counselling service as we are not qualified to do so.
What Happens on a Drink Drive Rehabilitation Course?
Our drink drive rehabilitation courses include the following:
- the course explores alcohol and driving.
- you will assess levels of alcohol use including your own.
- you will understand alcohol units, the issues associated with calculating units and how little alcohol it takes to still be over the limit the next day/morning after’.
- you will look at the possible effects alcohol can have on your health, both short and long term.
- you will find out how you can be arrested for a drink driving offence even by just sitting or sleeping in a car after drinking.
- you will explore the possible impacts of drink driving for both yourself and others.
- you will be introduced to the decision making process and the possible sentencing outcomes that Courts go through in drink drive cases and look at the sentencing guidelines.
- You will be given details of how to apply for your licence back.
Driving Ban for Drink Driving Reduction
A drink drivers awareness course is only available to those given a driving ban for drink driving by a Court. No one is able to book a drink drivers awareness course voluntarily.
Additionally you are not able to book a place on a drink drive course online, or by telephone, until you have received your copy of the referral order from LTP Driver Training. The referral order contains a reference which is required during the booking process.
You are required to pay for the course fee in advance and in full before the course commences. Our article How to Book a Place on a Drink Driving Course? has further information about course booking.
On the first day of attending you will be asked to produce one or two documents of identification as shown in the table below.
| Group A1 document required | Group B2 documents required |
|---|---|
| Signed valid passport of any nationality Biometric residence permit (formerly known as the identity card for foreign nationals) Valid photo student card Valid UK firearms licence with photo Employment photo ID | National Insurance card A letter from the Department for Work and Pensions showing your National Insurance number Birth Certificate Photocopy of the front page of a benefits book or an original benefits claim letter P45, P60 or pay slip Marriage certificate or divorce papers (decree nisi or absolute) Utility bill with current address College or university union card BR2102, BR2103 or BR5899 letter confirming your eligibility for the State Pension UK certificate of naturalisation Non-UK birth certificate, with translation if not in English. UK adoption certificate Pension, endowment or ISA statement issued in last 12 months. |
Attending a Drink Drivers Course
- ensure that you arrive at the venue at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the course for registration purposes.
- it is your responsibility to allow plenty of time for any journey you may have to make.
- you must dress in a presentable way.
- you must participate fully in the course sessions as required.
- if you wear glasses please bring them with you.
- electronic devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, radios etc. must be switched off for the duration of the course.
- no children, i.e. those under the age of 17, will be admitted to the course.
- only yourself and a pre booked interpreter and/or BSL signer will be admitted.
In special circumstances e.g. military personnel, people living or working abroad, or difficult shift hours, people living in remote locations etc. it may be possible to apply an exception. Please call us on 01476 515936 to discuss your personal circumstances should this be the case.
Attending a Drink Driving Course Online
- ensure that you are logged into the Zoom session at least fifteen minutes prior to the start of the course for registration purposes.
- it is your responsibility to allow plenty of time for setting up, logging into and testing connections etc. with the device you will use to connect to the Zoom call.
- your internet connection must be stable, therefore 4G may not be reliable enough.
- you must be dressed in a presentable way, as if you were attending a course in the classroom.
- you must always have the video and audio functions working and have your face in full view of the camera.
- you must be alone during the course to ensure confidentiality of other people attending.
- always keep yourself away from any distractions during the course, because full attention and participation is required to complete the course properly.
- you must stay at your device and not move around the room while the course is in progress, until a regular break is given.
- any form recording equipment must be switched off.
If you require a test run on Zoom we can offer this if you telephone us no later than three to four days before your course start date.
As mentioned above please call us on 01476 515936 to discuss your special circumstances if you believe they may apply to you.
Completing a Drink Drivers Course
Drink drivers courses are for people that have been sentenced with a driving ban for drink driving. By agreeing to a attend a course to reduce a driving ban, you need to complete the course correctly.
Courses are delivered over a three day period, either on weekdays or at weekends. The LTP Driver Training courses generally run from 09:30 am to 16:30 pm, with three breaks in the day. The total length of the course is sixteen hours, excluding the breaks.
You will have to attend three sessions spread over three consecutive weeks. And you are required to participate throughout the whole period of the three days of the day courses.
Therefore you must ensure that you can attend all three days of the course you have booked. Should your attendance be interrupted, and there is a genuine reason for this, then LTP Driver Training may transfer you to another course if they are able to. Or provide a catch up session within a group environment.
Without a genuine reason for interrupting your attendance, you will be required to pay the full cost for re-booking onto any new course.
The course content will involve:
- short lectures.
- group activities and discussions.
- role play.
- assessment of personal drinking habits.
- presentations from internal/external sources.
Both the classroom and online drink drive rehabilitation courses will be attended by up to twenty people at a time. This will enable the group activities and discussions. Everyone on the course will be working to reduce their driving ban length and group learning is an important feature of a drink drivers course.
Additionally, as being sentenced for drink driving is not a pleasant experience, it often helps people on a drink drivers course to hear other peoples’ stories. Shared experiences are a simple human way of helping us to feel less isolated about a bad situation.
Successful completion of the course requires full attendance of all pre-booked sessions, payment of the fees in full prior to course commencing and compliance with the course organiser’s reasonable requirements.
Drink Driving Rehabilitation Course Violations
As one of the DVSA approved drink drive course providers we are legally bound to report anyone to the Court and/or the police that does any of the following:
- that does not attend.
- that arrives late to the course.
- is not in a fit state to participate i.e showing any evidence of alcohol or illicit drugs use.
- being under the influence of a substance including alcohol.
- drinking alcohol during the course.
- driving to or from a course whilst disqualified from driving.
- using abusive, foul language or threatening behaviour towards LTP Driver Training staff or other course members.
- fraudulently producing ID documents.
- posing as someone else to take the course.
- smoking or vaping during the course.
If you are reported back to the Court, it will not offer you the option to take another course. The police may also arrest you again.
Drink Drive Rehabilitation Courses Outcomes
Having successfully completed your drink drivers awareness course the following will occur:
- you will be awarded with a course Certificate of Completion.
- LTP Driver Training will officially inform the sentencing Court that you have successfully completed the course.
- the sentencing Court will then notify the DVLA that you have successfully completed the course.
- your period of driving disqualification is reduced by the amount of time offered to you by the Court during sentencing.
- research linked to the drink driving awareness courses shows that you should be much less likely to reoffend.
Please be aware that LTP Driver Training cannot be held responsible if there are any other material offences which may affect your ability to renew your driving licence sooner.
For any further information or questions please contact us, view our FAQs page and refer to our full terms and conditions.
