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Due to lack of take up, the barbeque planned for August 29th is cancelled

Next meeting is monday September 1st at 19:00, in Craigsfarm, Livingston

Welcome to the West Lothian Driving Instructors Association website. This site is designed to function like an online newsletter for all driving instructors (ADIs and PDIs) who operate out of the Bathgate Driving Test Centre and are members of our association. The function of the site and the association is to keep our members informed of:-

• Things happening in our working area that can affect us

• Things happening in the driving instruction industry as a whole

• Things happening in the motoring field in general

• Our meeting schedule

• Our social event schedule

If you are not a member and are unsure if it is worth your while, have a look at this link, and have a look around the site to see what we are up to and about.

Bills Night out

Bill's night went very well, I am hoping to get the photos from Matt as soon as possible and will get them posted up. It was nice to see a good number of us turn up to pay tribute to a guy who helped us out a lot over the years.  The collection raised a goodly sum and once again my thanks go to  Scott MacAllister and Ian Malone for running the collection and to Ian Malone and Tom Meechan for arranging the night out.  

CPD

A reminder, asking you all to complete and return Aenaes  McRitchie's CPD questionaire. Remember, if you don't fill these in and take part, then it's hard to justify complaining about a system that is forced on you later.  Those who have not received it please contact me on the email address at the bottom of this page and I will forward you a copy.

Further to this matter I have been in direct contact with the DSA ADI unit and I can now confirm that our own association meetings DO COUNT as CPD if we have: A guest speaker, a set topic of discussion or development, recorded minutes and an association official willing to sign off the meeting as worthwhile. Therefore at the next meeting I will be issuing certificates of attendance which will certify 2 hours CPD each for the March meeting and the June meeting. The exact details of what will and what will not constitute CPD is still being refined, but it should be reassuring that for those attending our periodic meetings there is 4 hours completed already this year, out of an average of 7 hours required per year of the 4 year green badge renewal cycle.

Bonus meeting

Now, you may have your own opinions as to whether an extra WLDIA meeting is a bonus, the choice is your own, however our members will have received an email and or text from me explaining about and extra meeting I have arranged.  This it to be held on monday October 6th at 19:00 at Deans Community High school in Livingston. We have arranged with the DSA Fraud and Integrity Team to come up and pay us a visit and give us a presentation on what there work entails and how they go about it. What I do know is that one of the F&I teams remits is to identify unlicenced instructors and remove them from the road, including (where appropriate) prosecution.  Therefore this is a part of he DSA that very defnitely works FOR us. This meeting will also count towards CPD (2 hours worth). The charge to non members is a mere £3. The initial take up on this meeting is very good and I will be extending invitations to other associations in this area, but as many people as possible are welcome to this event. 

Road Signs - Your chance!!

There were only a couple of points raised to me about poor road signing and line marking on the roads.  I will be arranging to meet with to Kevin Hamilton as soon as possible now that the holiday season is over. As ever I will feed back to you as soon as I can.

Hatches and Dispatches

Congratulations to Tom and Tracy Meechan on the birth of little Hannah (left), who arrived on the 10th August, weighing in at a healthy 7lb 8. Mother and baby doing well.... dad still out working!

Also congratulations to Lyndsay Stewart on the birth of her new baby (no pictures available).

Good luck to Violet Ann Aitken from the agency who has been promoted and will be leaving us shortly after many years working as an examiner in this area.  Good luck also to big Norman Greeg, who will be retiring from the agency in a few weeks.  He plans to leave quietly with as little fuss as possible.   Those of us operating out of the Bathgate DTC have always been able to have a strong working relationship with our examiners, and both Violet Ann and Norman have played a significant part in that relationship.  All of us in the local association wish you all the best in the future. 

Most Recent Updates - as of 14/08/2008

• The Events and Meetings pages have been merged to provide a single diary page.  One place to check to find out all that is going on. the first six month of this year.  
• The local news page has been dropped and merged with this front page.

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