Our RoSPA Level 3 Award in Chauffeur Skills & Protective Driving

provides comprehensive instruction and guidance in all aspects of chauffeuring and protective driving, from the all-important ‘soft skills’ through to advanced and tactical driving tuition. The course was developed by ADS Training & Consultancy Ltd in association with RoSPA, the world-renowned advanced driver and vocational training organisation, and we are both delighted and privileged that the course has earned a rare and coveted RoSPA fully accredited level 3 award. This makes us currently the only training provider in the UK able to offer such a fully accredited course leading to a genuine RoSPA award.

Course Overview:

The RoSPA Level 3 Award in Chauffeur Skills & Protective Driving is an intensive course run over 7-days and made up of 5 main elements;

Soft skills - hugely important personal skills that form the basis of any chauffeur-passenger professional relationship. Having a real understanding of the so-called ‘soft skills’ is absolutely necessary and these may differ dependent on who your principal is and what their expectations are. This subject should go way beyond opening doors and we ensure everything that comes under the umbrella of ‘soft skills’ such as etiquette, dress and deportment, attitude and formality is covered as it should be.

Advanced driving - as you would expect from a course that carries a RoSPA level 3 award, advanced driving forms the core of our instruction and underpins the protective driving phase. We provide tuition in the full RoSPA system of car control in a realistic enough timeframe to prepare delegates for the challenging advanced driving test.

Tactical and protective driving - As chauffeurs we have a duty of care to our clients and every passenger needs and indeed deserves to feel as safe and secure as they possibly can be. Our profession dictates that most of us regularly find ourselves driving senior executives, celebrities and high net worth individuals who might well unwittingly attract interest from an undesirable element. Common criminality or terrorism, opportunist or well planned, any client could become a target and by being security aware and proactive, chauffeurs have a significant role to play in lowering the odds of their passengers or themselves falling victim. This phase covers realistic driving techniques, surveillance, working with protection professionals, client profiling and threat assessment and other necessary aspects.

RoSPA advanced driving test - this is the culmination for all the practical driving tuition and study. We use external RoSPA-appointed test examiners, otherwise unconnected with our training, to ensure test conditions are impartial, fair and conducted to a necessarily high standards as per RoSPA best practice. Delegates need to achieve a silver or gold pass to gain overall success on the course.

Ongoing assessment and final exercise - ours is a fully accredited course which means we must ensure that delegates meet a series of necessary learning outcomes in order to successfully pass the course. This makes it necessary for us to constantly assess each learner to ensure they maintain the standard required to gain the RoSPA level 3 award. Please not that this is NOT an automatic pass course as a number of learning objectives need to be reached for a a successful conclusion to the course.

Every detail of our course content has been technically checked to ensure it meets the rigid and strict criteria required to hold this extremely sought-after accreditation. We feel that this RoSPA award, together with the long-held, genuine and credible experience of the training staff, will provide attendees with the confidence that ADS are the right training provider to equip them with the skills required for a career as a professional chauffeur