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New course to help taxi drivers look after vulnerable people



A new course is being run for taxi drivers in Poole to help them look after vulnerable people. This mandatory training course covers safeguarding, disability awareness and how to support people with dementia. It also covers domestic abuse, mental health, child sexual exploitation, human trafficking and modern slavery. As well as spotting the signs, the course provides details on how to report information.

Councillor John Rampton, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Licensing, Borough of Poole, said: "Taxi drivers are the eyes and ears in our town and as such may spot behaviour or patterns that need to be reported to the authorities. As well as covering safeguarding, the training also deals with a range of conditions and disabilities that passengers may have and how drivers can recognise and deal with these. This will result in an improved taxi and private hire service for everyone in Poole."

Rhianon Greenslade, Sexual Violence Prevention Officer, Safer Poole Partnership, added: "Taxi drivers could provide that missing jigsaw piece of information that the Police or social care teams need to take action. We know that taxi drivers witness various incidents that may appear concerning, so by working together we can safeguard those most at risk in our community."

All new taxi and private hire drivers will be required to successfully undertake the training course before being granted a licence. There is also a programme to ensure all existing drivers will have received the training by 1 April 2018 and for the training to be repeated every 3 years.

source: http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update ... le-people/

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

If it's being run in Poole i just hope it isn't being run on a Tuesday morning.

Older TDO members will know why.

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IDFIMH

what the fook do they want us to do in a 10 min taxi ride ffs!!!! where is this chit going to end? do we have to carry surgery equipment about in case someone needs a emergency op? its absolute madness all this crap, where are the days when someone would just get taken from a2b without a right mess on ffs

Provide a proper service !

I doubt Doom is still in the trade Sussex between his attitude and his tuesday sessions I would think he's now doing something else although i did suspect at the time that he suffered from PTSD which might have explained some of it

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

no idea at all what you are talking about here mate

You would need to do a member search and read some of his posts. particularly the ones posted on a Tuesday night.

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Grandad,