Grant for close contact workers
My wife is a driving instructor. She had not received one single pence since lockdown began. Not only do we need money to pay the rent, buy food and pay our bills, when she returns to work her car needs to be adapted with a plastic screen between her and her learner drivers. Supermarket checkouts have them, bus drivers already have them. There needs to be a programme instigated where every model of car being used can have a screen fitted. Taxi drivers also have them between the front and the back however, most Driving Instructors use their cars as family cars outside of working hours. The DVSA suspended all tests until August. This industry has slipped through the gaps of the UK governments plan to help small businesses.
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When the DVSA suspended all driving tests the Driving Instruction industry immediately and abruptly halted. We need emergency funds for us just to survive and protection from infection from close contact work (in cars) when we do return. Please prioritise help for this industry, it's workers have been left hanging. We can't fall into the Universal Credit trap that has been set by Westminster so we are effectively left penniless, relying on food banks and family donations to survive and pay the never ending bills that arrive.
by Nast999 on May 09, 2020 at 10:20AM
Posted by Iona May 09, 2020 at 10:50
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Posted by Iona May 09, 2020 at 10:55
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