Well...there could also be an argument that is the converse...that in
order to maintain quality and to make effective intervention available
to pupils and students via additional support you need to know about
local conditions, how that support works in practice and the
practicalities of implementing, maintaining and managing support of all
sorts. In a Higher Education context I should have thought that the
professionals in such a position are going to be the Disability Advisers
and not full time assessors, who I should have thought that if
undertaking 3/4 assessments per week @ 9/10 hours a piece could not find
a great deal of time for anything else...
From a CAP perspective a great deal of effort was put into the
development of a model that acknowledged the vital role of local (not
lay) teams with Centres of Expertise to feed those bits of expertise /
information / technical support etc etc into the system...and to
undertake a QA process...
Its my view that this has been tremendously successful and that BECTA /
LEAs / CAP Assessors / CAP Centres / pupils and parents are delighted at
the strides forward this project has made...to the extent where an
extension of 2 years has recently been confirmed.
The use of local teams will not cause difficulties in maintaining
quality...it will be the lack of on-going funding. This is not a
situation faced in HE with the DSA.
Cheers
Simon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Litterick
Sent: 29 April 2003 17:12
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New guidelines...
Actually both, I intended. I think that the CAP idea of spreading
expertise to local CAP Contacts is great, and you, from your experience
at CAP centre ACE North, will know much better than I how well it is
working in practice. But we also know how difficult it is for people,
whether DOs or Assessors or both, who are immersed in technology and
disability all their working lives, to keep up to date with developments
so that they can continue to offer the best assessments. CAP's objective
of maintaining quality with comparatively lay local contacts (see
http://cap.becta.org.uk/information.php?pageID=56) is going to be
difficult to achieve, isn't it, however good the systems and high the
aspirations?
I make no comment about how many DSA assessments you need to do to
maintain quality. But aren't most CAP Local Contacts going to be doing
fewer still? How is it doing in practice?
Cheers
Ian Litterick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Bloor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 April 2003 15:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New guidelines...
>
>
> Presumably this is from a suppliers' perspective rather than
> assessment
> and matching of resources to need perspective...
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon Bloor
> ACE North
>
>
>
>
> I agree that the different branches of the DfES, BECTa and
> DWP have much
> to learn from each other in administering DSA, Additional Learning
> Support (FE), CAP and ATW, and, to a lesser extent COL (Curriculum
> OnLine). But as a supplier to all of them, on the whole I would think
> that it is the DSA that has got things the best worked out in terms of
> efficiency, meeting consumer needs and protecting the public
> purse. DSA
> has had a head start. Which is not to say it has nothing to learn from
> the others.
>
> But they all have assessors, users, funders, suppliers and government
> departments involved, and there has been a lot of wheel reinventing
> all round. (Actually, some of the wheels have turned out pretty
> oval!). How
> to get all involved to learn from each other? A conference, anybody?
> Would anyone come?
>
> Regards
> Ian Litterick
> iANSYST Ltd
> www.dyslexic.com
>
>
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