Car insurance firms 'tend to want to see proof' that drivers have become safer before offering improved terms, according to AA Insurance.
A new initiative from the AA may not result in cheaper car insurance policies, the firm has warned.
The AA Charitable Trust is launching a series of training courses - labelled Drive Smart - which aim to encourage safe driving. Police will put forward young drivers with poor records for the courses, with a hope of encouraging them to become safer drivers.
However, Andrew Howard, head of road safety at the AA, said that it is "difficult" to say whether taking one of the courses could help a reformed young driver get cheaper car insurance.
"Firstly, most of these people will have gone on the course because they haven't been terribly responsible and secondly, insurance companies tend to want to see proof that people who have been on the course come out on the end of it as safer drivers before they went on it," he explained.
The problem of dangerous driving by young people has again been highlighted by a report from road safety charity Brake, which revealed that one in three drivers who die on Britain's roads are under 25, despite just one in eight of all drivers being this age. Additionally, Brake revealed that an 18-year-old is three times more likely to be in a crash than a 48-year-old.
