Contacted CAA yesterday
Spoke to a very helpful gent who explained the ins and out and directed me to their site with an approved list of flight schools. Bottom line if they not on the list they not approved. Don't go there.
follow this link
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.asp...detail&id=1211
With regards to doing flight training in Spain. Aerofan is not approved. As yet they have not applied for approval, and it doesn't look like they going to even try, after contacting them, I was told I must arrange it myself with the UK CAA. Fat chance of that happening!
You can do it in Jeres, they are approved and there is an agreement in place with UK CAA.
hope this helps