One ‘lenient’ city licences 10 percent of taxi drivers from England | UK | News
Drivers are going to social media to buy cars, including black cabins registered in West Midlands, Wolverhampton, where license requirements are much easier than other fields.
There are now serious concerns that some cabins, especially children’s sexual exploitation scandals, can escape from challenging protection controls. Reports Times.
The newspaper first revealed this issue in 2018 and reported that Wolverhampton is the preferred authority for drivers who want to get a minicab license.
And the scale of the problem is just getting worse. The figures from the Combined Authority of the Great Manchester show that more than 10 taxi licenses in the UK as of this year are given by Wolverhampton Council.
Baroness Casey from Blackstock has recently marked gaps that allow private rental drivers to work as a serious risk of protection for young people anywhere in the UK.
The ministers also accepted 12 of their proposals and to end this practice, “Pace promised to take action. However, the campaignists say that the government should go further and call for more strict undergraduate controls in the whole country.
Although drivers – including DBS background control – although they pass checks where they are licensed, some local councils require much higher standards than others.
Such an authority is Rotherham, who brings much harder license rules after the 2014 Jay report.
This caused the Rotherham district council to make CCTV compulsory in all taxis, clearly described what was considered a “appropriate and appropriate person ve and demanded that the applicants will pass a protection test with a 100 percent transition rate.
Nevertheless, thanks to the legislation introduced under the government of David Cameron in 2015, these guards can be easily wrong thanks to the legislation that allows them to work nationally regardless of where they get their licenses.
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester Great, warned that almost half of all private rental drivers in the city have been licensed elsewhere.
Last year, the data obtained by Manchester Evening News showed that 8,952 drivers working in the region made up 35 percent of private rental cars – about 80 miles away from the Wolverhampton Council.
And Liverpool Echo, in 2024, Wolverhampton’ın Liverpool postcodes using Liverpool postcodes reported about 500 licenses.
“People like a council in Wolverhampton – people like a council in Wolverhampton – Easy to take a badge. Test is very difficult in Manchester. So people go to Wolverhampton.”
A license fees are also swinging wildly among the councils. Rotherham demands £ 210 for one -year license, while Wolverhampton just wants £ 49.
Most of the cars that change hands on social media already come with a Wolverhampton taxi license. However, buyers still need to obtain personal licenses from the Council to legally guide them.
This week, Casey warned that although most cabin is compatible with the laws, “as an important part of the night economy, taxis are described as a way of historically described as a way of children’s risk of sexual exploitation”.
“Local authorities are giving taxi licenses in the direction of legal guidance to combat sexual exploitation of child sexual exploitation, but they are blocked from legal gaps, which means that other local authorities can apply for the license anywhere in the country.”
Wolverhampton Council Council spokesman said that the protection was “number one priority in a taxi license ve and the only local authority that controls drivers in the case of DBS in the case of DBS.
“It is illegal for applicants to the Council to reject a taxi license on the basis of their place. In accordance with the current law, applicants may apply to a license authority. It is illegal to set a limit to the number of special leasing licenses issued by undergraduate authorities.
“Our early adoption of digital technology enabled us to provide a simple and efficient online application procedure, provided that drivers participate in the person who personally participate in training and solid assessment before an application was processed.”
The Ministry of Transportation was contacted for comment.
