Barriers:
- Cost – its over $1100 to get to a full stage of license
- No practical testing here in Central Hawke’s Bay have to drive over 45 minutes to testing sites
- Many people don’t have legal vehicles or licensed drivers to teach them
The realities:
- Vital for employment and accessing opportunities within community
- 62% of people who enter the justice system because of driving offense
- MSD, CORRECTIONS, POLICE, COURT – common denominator is that many people do not have a full clean license
- 32 deaths on HB roads in 2021 – 34% of them did not have full or appropriate license
We target:
- All high school students in CHB
- Those not engaged in employment or training (NEETS)
- Anyone on a benefit
- Those stuck in justice system
- Low income whānau that don’t have access to resources needed
- Large employers that have a social conscience and see a full license as a benefit to their employees
