We are now running digital and physical classroom courses. If you need to contact us, our telephone opening hours are as follows: Telephone: 01926 412990 Please be aware, we are expecting a high volume of calls, so we appreciate your patience and understanding.
Alternatively, you can email drivereducation@warwickshire.gov.uk
We provide the driver retraining courses for motorists who have been given the option of attending as an alternative to prosecution.
Booking your course
You cannot apply to attend a driver retraining course if you have not been offered a place. If you are eligible you will have received a letter from the police that gives you the option of attending a course.
You can book a course with Warwickshire Council by telephone (call 0300 555 8177) or online by clicking on the ‘book online’ button at the top of this page. Please contact us if you can't find a suitable date online as we may have more dates to offer. You will need your police reference number, pin number and a method of payment to make your booking.
You can attend courses at locations nationwide. Details of course locations outside of Warwickshire can be found on the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme website.
Any special requirements must be advised at the time of booking.
All courses available
Drivers who qualify to attend the courses will be sent details by the police. You cannot apply for a course if you have not been offered the option to attend a workshop.
Directions and parking for venues
Please see the documents and downloads section of this page and select the venue that you are attending for instructions on parking and directions.
National Speed Awareness Course (NSAC)
Speed awareness helps clients explore why they have exceeded the speed limit and develop a personal speed awareness strategy. The course is for motorists who have been detected exceeding the speed limit within an agreed threshold. It is delivered in an interactive workshop format lasting 3 hours.
At the end of the course clients should be able to:
- examine why limits are needed and recognise limits
- understand that a speed below the posted limit is frequently appropriate
- identify what causes them to speed
- identify the disadvantages of speeding and consequences of misusing speed
- recognise different speed limit areas
- demonstrate knowledge of appropriate use of speed
- develop their personal speed awareness strategy.
Available at the following locations:
- The Sports Connexion, CV8 3FL (what3words//flagging.projects.argued)
- Oakridge Golf Club, CV10 9PH (what3words//snippets.snooping.fine)
- Warwick Racecourse, CV34 6HN (what3words//flags.mintue.tanks)
- Kings Court Hotel, B49 5QQ (what3words//student.mimics.flopping)
National Motorway Awareness (NMAC)
The National Motorway Awareness Course looks at how to make smart motorways safer and more efficient. This means providing a better experience for all users. It is an interactive workshop lasting three hours.
Course objectives – to increase knowledge in these areas:
- what are the different smart motorway signs?
- understanding variable speed limits and lane closures
- how to use emergency areas safely and appropriately
- the risks of breaking the rules on smart motorways
- complying with rules on smart motorways – personal responsibility
- perceptions of control over complying with motorway regulations
Available at:
- The Sports Connexion, CV8 3FL (what3words//flagging.projects.argued)
- Oakridge Golf Club, CV10 9PH (what3words//snippets.snooping.fine)
- Warwick Racecourse, CV34 6HN (what3words//flags.mintue.tanks)
What’s Driving Us (WDU)
What’s Driving Us aims to produce safer and more responsible attitudes towards driving and to increase motivation to drive with consideration for other road users. It does this by giving clients an opportunity to think about what they like and dislike about driving, how other people’s driving affects them and how their driving might affect other people. Through presentations and discussions, clients gain insight into the decisions that people make on the road.
The course is offered to some motorists who are detected committing certain road traffic offences. It is delivered in an interactive workshop format lasting three hours.
Course objectives:
- increase clients’ perceptions of driving as a complex and difficult task
- increase clients’ recognition that the way they drive and the risks they take have negative consequences for other road users and increase the likelihood of crashing
- increase clients’ awareness of the physical, emotional and financial consequences of being involved in a crash
- increase clients’ understanding of the need for traffic rules
- increase clients’ insight into the things that influence their driving
- encourage clients to identify and overcome their own barriers to safe and considerate driving
Available at the following locations:
- The Sports Connexion, CV8 3FL (what3words//flagging.projects.argued)
- Oakridge Golf Club, CV10 9PH (what3words//snippets.snooping.fine)
- Warwick Racecourse, CV34 6HN (what3words//flags.mintue.tanks)
Safe and Considerate Driving (SCD)
The course lasts seven hours.
SCD is offered to motorists who have been involved in a collision where evidence indicates they have been driving without due care and attention or driving without reasonable consideration for other road users. The course aims to create safer communities and reduce the chances of drivers being involved in future incidents. The course lasts a full day and involves a combination of an in-class interactive workshop and on-road practical driving session under the supervision of a qualified driving coach.
Prior to the practical element, you will be required to pass an eyesight check.
DVLA requirement: to read a car number plate from 20m.
The course will give clients the opportunity to consider:
- are situations avoidable?
- accepting ownership of the problem
- skills for safe driving
- what affects our driving performance?
Available at the following locations:
- The Sports Connexion, CV8 3FL (what3words//flagging.projects.argued)
- Warwick Racecourse, CV34 6HN (what3words//flags.mintue.tanks)
- Oakridge Golf Club, CV10 9PH (what3words//snippets.snooping.fine)
National Rider Risk Awareness Course (NRRAC)
The course is designed as an alternative to prosecution and sets out to help riders of motorcycles, mopeds and scooters to become safer road users and make better choices.
The course objectives are to increase clients’:
- Understanding of why road traffic laws exist and nature of the specific laws relevant to course attendance
- understanding of the universal application of road traffic law to all vehicles using the roads and the diverse consequences of violating it.
- recognition of their own personal vulnerability to these consequences.
- ability to recognise the personality characteristics that increase their willingness to break traffic rules and how to manage the consequent behavioural tendencies.
- awareness of how offending is seen and judged negatively by other road users, including other PTW riders.
- understanding of the nature of the limitations in human cognitive performance and how these factors relate to riding situations, particularly those implicated in RTCs involving PTWs.
- ability to recognise and manage external pressures that may encourage the commission of traffic offence.
Available online via Microsoft Teams only.
Course venues
Please note, not all courses operate from all venues. See below for a list of venues and courses available at each. You can download directions to all of our venues from the documents and downloads section of this webpage.
Warwick Racecourse
Hampton Street
Warwick
CV34 6HN
Courses available at this location:
- Speed Awareness
- National Motorway Awareness
- What’s Driving Us
- Safe and Considerate Driving
The Sports Connexion
Leamington Road
Ryton on Dunsmore
CV8 3FL (what3words//flagging.projects.argued)
Courses available at this location:
- Speed Awareness
- National Motorway Awareness
- What’s Driving Us
- Safe and Considerate Driving
Oakridge Golf Club
Arley Lane
Nuneaton
CV10 9PH (what3words//snippets.snooping.fine)
Courses available at this location:
- Speed Awareness
- National Motorway Awareness
- What’s Driving Us
- Safe and Considerate Driving
Kings Court Hotel
Kings Coughton (near Alcester)
B49 5QQ (what3words//student.mimics.flopping)
Courses available at this location:
- Speed Awareness
Terms and conditions
Terms and conditions apply to all National Driver Offender Retraining Courses that we provide. By booking a place on a course you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Please note, that in order to complete a course you are required to:
- attend for the entire duration of the course
- complete course paperwork (where required)
- make a positive contribution to the course through active participation
- demonstrate a responsible attitude to safe driving.
Before the course starts you will be required to present your driving licence or other official photographic identification such as a passport. Please ensure you can meet this requirement before you book a course.