Many thanks for all your comments. From the responses I've received I seem to have split opinion. From experience this is not unusual as there seem to be a number of grey areas where arguments that can be put for and against depending on your perspective. Would like to draw a line under this one now but would like to leave you with one thought.
At some point I can envisage carrying out an assessment for a student which as been sanctioned by the funding body, if my recommendations are all contentious then potentially the student could have all support denied by the funding body unyet an assessment has been carried out and needs to be paid for.
In other words the student gets no support and the DSA is spent purely on admin and bureaucracy.
Food for thought!!
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