Taxi Driver Online

Imagine revoking a driver for this

Maybe the driver was a bit scary, but not nearly as scary as the people who revoked him

(SEND means Special Educational Needs and Disabilities)


Taxi driver left child in tears after making unusual threat

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/loca ... rs-8974127

The taxi driver has been stripped of his taxi licence

A taxi driver who threatened to leave a child with special needs “in the middle of the forest with the wolves” has been stripped of his taxi licence.

The driver had been doing school runs for the child, and said that he made the threat in the summer to stop the “agitated” child kicking the doors and windows in the car. He stopped the car on the journey home from school, opened the child’s car door and said: “Please stop. If you don’t stop, you stay here in the middle of the forest with the wolves."

As is typical for taxi driver hearings at Bath and North East Somerset Council, the case was heard in a private session of the licensing subcommittee, but the minutes of the meeting in November have now been publicly published.

The taxi driver — who has not been named — said that he had been trying to calm an unsafe situation. He said that the child had also kicked her school escort and he thought it would be unsafe to drive while the behaviour continues.

The taxi driver — who has not been named — said that he had been trying to calm an unsafe situation. He said that the child had also kicked her school escort and he thought it would be unsafe to drive while the behaviour continues.

But he accepted that the child and their school escort had been upset by the incident in the summer. The child reportedly cried for 10 or 20 seconds after the driver made the threat, and the school escort later made a complaint.

The driver had attended a safeguarding course after the incident, but said he had not understood it all due to a language barrier and did not remember much about the course.

Bath and North East Somerset Council’s licensing subcommittee ruled that the driver “does not have the appropriate judgement of how to deal with children he is responsible for transporting” and stripped him of his taxi driver and private hire licence.

On the other hand, to that extent maybe he shouldn't have had a badge in the first place? But if he was able to articulate the 'scary' thing to the child, why did he find the language barrier on the safeguarding course problematic?


I certainly know who "don't have the appropriate judgement" to deal with people...

the escort certainly thought it was serious enough to report him and it doesn't take much with some councils remember the case of the ex footballer who told a 15 year old a dirty joke ?

personally I think this should have been a don't do it again warning but then I wasn't party to the proceedings



(ducks for cover waiting for stuart to lambast me for not making a real contribution to the thread )

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I would be very surprised if this was the only incident because in my view the above is not enough for the fella to lose his license.

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Indeed, Sussex, there's a bit more to it than as portrayed in the article

Eventually found the minutes - it would have helped if I'd been looking on the relevant council's website, but because the piece was on the Bristol Post's website, I was looking on Bristol Council's website, but of course it was a Bath and North East Somerset badge

Anyway, there's a reasonable amount of reading, but a littering offence was also considered, not to mention being caught not wearing his badge

However, probably more important is that he was suspended for three months previously, and that was early last year. He had *five* speeding offences since 2016, it seems like he hadn't declared them, and tried to mislead the LOs. And he was warned about his future conduct at that time...

So the press report (which was rehashed on the BBC's website) is a bit misleading in portraying the revocation as being all about the school run stuff, and not as much as giving the other stuff a passing mention.

Personally, I'd have given him another suspension

I mean, he does have a bit of a history, but it's all pretty low level stuff in my opinion.

And the narrative about the school stuff reminds me why I've always given school runs a body swerve...

Minutes here, starting from paragraph 55 near the top of the document:

https://democracy.bathnes.gov.uk/docume ... 231116.pdf

Sort of agree, but I can understand the LOs simply having had enough of him.

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