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  1. Adult Education School

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We're one of the leading awarding bodies for land-based industries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. We develop quality training and nationally recognised qualifications, delivered by a carefully selected network of approved training partners. We're your one-stop-shop for training and careers. From forestry to food production, pest management to plant maintenance, our fast-moving land-based industries are home to hundreds of exciting, interesting jobs and careers. We’ve been helping build a sustainable, diverse workforce for over 40 years. Our aim is to improve skills and opportunities for everyone in the land-based industries. We have dedicated teams in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all providing expert local guidance backed by years of industry experience. We are a workforce charity committed to the belief that skills transform lives, with our Board of Trustees ensuring we meet this goal by continually delivering high standards of training, guidance and industry support.


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2.3

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TrustScore 2.5 out of 5

9 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I had my way there would be a minus…

If I had my way there would be a minus star rating even though I’ve failed my level two rodent course I then asked for what I had failed on which they could not produce. How is this a learning procedure? We cannot learn from this? If you do not know your mistakes if you think about it when you do your driving test theory you get to see where you went wrong and you can learn from this and you can also acquire DVDs and sit a mock test of all different questions that would’ve been appropriate. there were also questions in the test that were not covered in. The modules provided which even though I have paid for I cannot go back and review over them again. Is this only a one time view? as being very dyslexic sometimes you need to revisit time and time again.

February 18, 2026
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic Service for SQP Training

The Vetpol team were incredibly helpful. The course was easy to access as were all the modules and the training material. Debs and Caroline were always at the end of an email for any questions or queries. The exams were easy to book and I felt well supported by the Vetpol team throughout my learning experience.
Definitely would recommend to anyone looking to train as an SQP.

April 3, 2024
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Reply from Lantra

Amba we happy to hear that you found the Lantra training and assessment process straightforward and simple to use. Vetpol continue to go above and beyond to engage with their learners. We wish you every success in your future career.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

SQP Core and Companion Animal

SQP Core and Companion Animal

Access to all materials, straightforward and easy. Put off my exams due to anxiety for a long time but everything was so good. The Vetpol team are so helpful and understanding. Their team were always on hand to answer any questions I had and put my worrying to ease. Big shout out to Debs, without who, wouldn't have given me the confidence to do my SQP.

March 26, 2024
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Reply from Lantra

Katie we are so pleased to hear you had a fantastic experience and you must be very proud of your achievement. Vetpol are a valued Lantra partner and do everything they can to support those with the SQP qualifications. We wish you every success.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

TERRIBLE COMPANY....... DO NOT USE

terrible company...... do not use. absolute scam. They take your money and you can't access the course, then you can't get on the exam, followed by passing the questions and having confirmation of this to be told you failed due to using external material. This was allowed in the exam and was shown before I started. This has happened twice now so please don't waste your time and money with this monopolist company

February 5, 2024
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Reply from Lantra

Russell, Lantra are sincerely sorry for the issues you have encountered. Your assessment was not allowed due to not meeting the requirements of exam conditions and only the correct reference materials can be used. We would like to offer you a free resit at your earliest convenience.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do not give this company your money as I have passed and paid for course only to not receive my cscs this company is running a big scam taking your money and not giving you what you paid for so please do not give this company your money or time !!!!!!!!!!!

June 26, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I took a rodenticide level 2 course

I took a rodenticide level 2 course. I passed having read all the course material and checked to ensure I conformed to the strict regulations. I adhered to all points even phoned to clarify access to course materials was allowed. Particularly as this was an open book test and was allowed to use Lantra course material I accessed this as 3 of the questions had not been covered in the training. They told me my exam was voided I asked to see screenshots of where I did wrong and they could not offer them. It’s a total scam walk away. I was told I could go again for 3/4 of the original price however as I didn’t know what they didn’t like I didn’t throw good money after bad. I would not recommend them find somewhere more trustworthy I’ve yet to get my qualification.

September 16, 2023
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Reply from Lantra

Alex, we are sincerely sorry that experienced issues which impacted recording of your assessment. If you would like to resit I would be happy to offer this free of charge. Please email awards@lantra.co.uk Karen

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Ok with an undertone of money grabbing

I attended Writtle agricultural college some years ago and the course and teacher were very good. Last year I did a bioside pesticides online course to enable us to carry on buying rat poison which we have been doing prior to this for fifty years. I logged on to their website and found little to no information on the courses I paid for or attended. Pointless really. The truth is that 99.9% of the farmers in this country have been farming quite well for the past thousand years without certificates. A quote from the classic film ,Blazing saddles. "We don't need no stinking badges!"

September 4, 2021
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Reply from Lantra

Lantra acknowledge your feedback on legislative changes. The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) mandated requirements for professional pest controllers to hold a recognised certificate. Lantra is one of the CRRU appointed training / awarding organisations providing recognised certification. More information can be found here https://www.thinkwildlife.org/code-of-best-practice/crru-code/

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

LANTRA - BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!!

LANTRA - BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!! BEWARE!!!

Lantra hold themselves out as being a 'fit and proper' company but BEWARE as they acted DISHONESTLY!!! We were a customer of theirs until we discovered that Lantra staff had written a FAKE review about our company on our Trustpilot page by IMPERSONATING a customer of ours AND also providing a fake name in the process!!! Lantra even went to the extent of changing the 'reviewer name' 3 times in order to cover their tracks! We were one of their highest paying customers - not anymore!!! Very weird, very strange, very dishonest!!!

Avoid this company as they might leave you and/or your company a bad review behind your back too!

We subsequently made a formal complaint through their so-called complaints procedure whereby they defended their fake review by saying it was factually correct!!! ...Even after they had gone to lengths to disguise its origin, which we caught them out on!

Their CEO Marcus Potter and his underling Robert Tabor accused our company and members of staff as fraudulent, simply for not removing AFTER they left us a FAKE REVIEW!!!

Their Quartz system is a joke, it routinely crashes, and looks like it has been coded by a 5-year old child. Lantra will demand payments upfront when you enter a learner onto their awful Quartz system and DO NOT REFUND regardless of whether a learner goes through with their assessment or not. This means YOUR company will have to bear the cost of customer refunds (in accordance with the relevant consumer legislation) and Lantra will keep your money as they are not required to refund your business with it being a business-to-business transaction - even though they bear ZERO costs.

They are industry experts in red tape and bureaucracy and they have treated our company very badly indeed, and I have no doubt they have treated other companies with similar contempt.

Please contact SmartBreeder.com if you have any complaints about Lantra as we are collecting all complaints about them so to pass onto the Charities Commission and publish in the public domain in order to warn others what they are up to.

Thank you for reading this review from a company with almost 6000 5-star reviews.

September 3, 2019
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Reply from Lantra

The Lantra account is now being actively monitored, hence the delay in responding.

To provide some context to readers of this posting from Smart Breeder. Lantra developed a qualification for micro chipping dogs and Smart Breeder was one of our Providers delivering this qualification from 2015-2017.

Lantra received many complaints from their learners about poor service and failure to deliver the L3 qualification as it should be. After several unsuccessful attempts by Smart Breeder to improve the quality of their delivery Lantra had no choice but to remove them as an approved Provider to protect future learners. Smart Breeder didn’t take this decision well leading to the negative review on Trust Pilot. They may administer and support the register of microchips well but as a deliverer of an accredited qualification they were unable to meet the the needs of employers and learners.

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