The point I am trying to make (very poorly by the repsonse to date) is that we can all sit in our ivory towers and pretend that all is well with our world. Unless we listen to the obserervations of others, such as those from the LEA etc., who may have the audacity to question us, we (and they) will never know better.
If people are happy to accept the standards they see around them then fine. If they are confident that the checks and validation procedures avoid any possibility of error then again that is for them to live with. All I can say is that I have seen assessments that have both given advantage and included excess technology and therefore expense that was uneccessary. I assume they have been passed by LEA's and have also got through the checking process as well.
I am not setting myself up as some sort of god or guru, heaven knows that I have probably made a good few errors in the many hundreds of assessments that I have done in the past years, and I expect that I shall make a few more before I retire. However, I am still concerned enough about the job to want to do it better AND to see that proper standards are applied across the board.
We are all trying to do the same job, all I am saying is that I am still prepared to be critical and not accept the easy option of sitting quietly when there is a hole in the boat, irrespective of how small it may percieved to be.
Of course it could be that I am totaly wrong in this and that it is my assessments and perception that is faulty, Or perhaps as I head toward that employment sunset I have taken on the characteristics of the late, and much lamented, Victor Meldrew?.
Should I believe it?
Terry Hart
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