Welcome

Thank you for your interest in joining the UKROEd Board as one of our non-executive directors.

As an organisation, we are responsible for the management and delivery of the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS) on behalf of UK police forces, and we are passionate about making our roads safer.

Our parent charity is The Road Safety Trust, which is a grant making body. The Trust has awarded more than £12 million pounds in road safety grants over the past 10 years.

With a vision of zero deaths and zero serious injuries on UK roads, the work of UKROEd is fundamental to changing the behaviour of road users. All our Board – executives and non-executives alike – have a real opportunity to make a difference and are committed to delivering this valuable work.

Over the past 12 months the NDORS has delivered more than two million courses, and we continue to put Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the heart of what we do to ensure that we can offer learning opportunities for everybody who uses our roads.

UKROEd is a sizeable business. We’re responsible for around £200 million of public money each year and navigate an advanced digital landscape with a variety of stakeholders including governments, police forces and our licenced training providers to deliver the scheme.

Since being appointed to Chair of the Board in 2021, I’ve found it’s a great team to be part of. The opportunity to make a real difference to so many people’s lives is a great motivator, and we encourage the right people to join our Board and drive this continuous improvement.

Whatever your background or experience, private or public sector, I know you’ll find being a UKROEd Board member both stimulating and rewarding.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Peter Strachan, Chair of the UKROEd Board

Introducing UKROEd

The name UKROEd is derived from United Kingdom Road Offender Education. Education is a key concept of what we do which, fundamentally, is to provide training to drivers who commit certain traffic offences across the UK.

Administering the central governance of NDORS (National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme), our role is to ensure exacting standards and consistency across the delivery of the whole function.

We assist police forces to offer high-quality courses that are underpinned by the latest research and statistics in road safety and the area of behavioural-change science; with the objective to reduce collisions, death and injury to road users.

A report by Ipsos MORI in 2018 showed that targeting the behaviour of motorists through the courses provided by UKROEd, reduced the likelihood of reoffending within six months by up to 23 per cent. Specifically, the research also indicated that taking part in one of our courses was more effective at reducing speed reoffending than a fine and penalty points. Indeed, nearly 98% of attendees on our courses tell us that they will use what they’ve learned to improve their driving to make themselves and other road users safer.

It’s these findings, in addition to our own research, that supports the work we do. As an organisation, we are passionate about road safety, and our vision is to have zero road deaths and serious injuries on UK roads.

It’s a vision that motivates me as an individual each and every day and I welcome those who wish to work with us in the capacity of a non-executive director, to help steer the organisation in this direction.

Ruth Purdie, OBE, CEO of UKROEd