In message , at 16:18:42 on Thu, 6 Apr
2017, Neil Williams remarked:
What change is required - I hope you don't mean "no hire/reward
insurance and no CRB checking"?

DBS checking (you're out of date there) is dead easy to do, so no, not
that. I run loads of them for Scouting purposes and have one myself.

I think what I'd change is make licensing a national remit and design
it for ease of obtaining one (and ease of cancellation if you don't
behave), e.g. a smooth online process.

Just seen proposals from my District Council to reform the rules, which
are in response to *local* considerations, including:

Enhancing the existing dress code.

DBS check annually rather than every three years.

Driver medicals every three years. (The current system asks for a
medical on application then nothing until the age of 45. Then every five
years until the age of 65 when it switches to annual medicals.)

Allowing novelty vehicles like fire engines, army vehicles and tuk tuk
rickshaws to register. [This appears to reverse a decision in 2008 that
all taxis should be painted a standard colour, for easy recognition, and
has certain tensions with the dress code - surely a novelty vehicle
would really need a novelty uniform]
--
Roland Perry