Who We Are
Built collaboratively.
DAS Academies have been shaped through collaboration across education, industry, communities and road safety.
01EducationBuilt with education.
Further Education helps ensure DAS begins with the learner and works within real educational environments.
02IndustryShaped by employers.
Industry helps connect learning with the skills, behaviours and mobility requirements of employment.
03PlacesConnected to place.
Local and Combined Authorities help connect mobility with regional skills, transport and economic opportunity.
04Road SafetyGrounded in road safety.
Specialists and campaigners help ensure responsible behaviour and safer roads remain fundamental to the Framework.
05The LearnerDesigned around people.
Different organisations contribute, but the purpose remains the same: helping people participate safely and independently in modern life.
Mobility changes what is possible.
DAS Academies bring education, industry and communities together to make Lifelong Safe Mobility a pathway to opportunity.
Our Public Purpose
Mobility creates opportunity.
For many people, access to employment depends on access to transport. A young person may possess the right qualification, attitude and ambition, yet remain unable to accept an opportunity because they cannot reasonably reach the workplace.
DAS Academies seek to address that practical barrier — creating fairer access to the education required to pursue Lifelong Safe Mobility. This is not about promising everyone a driving licence. It is about creating fairer access to the education and opportunity required to pursue one.
"Where mobility creates opportunity, access to high-quality mobility education should be within reach of every community."
A qualification can open a door.
But only if you can reach it.
Mobility connects education with opportunity.
Education can make that mobility safer, fairer and more achievable.
The central idea
Lifelong Safe Mobility.
Our Philosophy
Understand before prescribing.
DAS begins by understanding the barriers experienced by learners, educational establishments, employers and communities. Solutions should respond to real needs rather than assumptions.
Evidence before assertion.
Progress should be demonstrable. Learning, simulation, immersive experiences and practical development should generate meaningful evidence of learner progression. DAS should continually learn from that evidence and improve.
Challenge with purpose.
Established systems should be capable of scrutiny where they create unnecessary barriers to opportunity. Challenge should be constructive, evidence-led and focused upon better outcomes.
Public purpose and accountability.
DAS should always be capable of answering: Who benefits? Who participates? Who is accountable? What practical difference does this make? The answer should return to the learner and their community.
The Educational Principle
The DAS journey is broader than learning how to operate a vehicle.
- Responsibility
- Judgement
- Risk Awareness
- Safe Decision-Making
- Independence
- Employment Readiness
- Lifelong Development
Collaborative Governance
Different perspectives. Shared responsibility. Common purpose.
DAS is not the product of one organisation working in isolation. The model has been informed through collaboration across education, industry, transport, road safety and the communities it serves.
FE colleges and educational specialists
Employers and industry leaders
Regional transport, skills and economic priorities
Safety, responsibility and behavioural development
Learners and the communities DAS serves
Education
FE colleges and educational specialists
Industry
Employers and industry leaders
Local & Authorities
Regional transport, skills and economic priorities
Road Safety & Specialists
Safety, responsibility and behavioural development
Communities
Learners and the communities DAS serves
Opportunity should not depend on whether you can get there.
DAS Academies are working to make Lifelong Safe Mobility part of the journey from education to independence and employment.
- Education
- Mobility
- Opportunity
