Bond Solon Reviews

Good course

Really useful! Hugely practical tips

The only reason I did not put 5/5 overall was because my focus is SEND tribunal and this was not an area covered by today's course (I thought it was). I did find the guidance for that during the day, however, and most of the content was applicable. Thank you for some excellent and enjoyable training.

I thought this was overall a very good training session which helped me in understanding what would be required of me as an expert witness (something I am completely new to). There were a few technical glitches and delays, where I would suggest approaching delegates prior to the course to request to submit an advance any prior anonymised reports that could then be incorporated into the training pack/allocations to ultimately streamline that element, as the scenarios were very helpful.

I would have liked a part of the course to have looked at the use of objective vs subjective language. I suspect some of this would be covered in the cross-examination course, but I think it would have been useful to have a section about this here.

Thank you very much for today, I enjoyed this and learnt a lot. It would have been good to have examined and assessed a report prepared by an expert witness for the purposes of court. We had some reports to look over but they were not prepared for court. While a lot of learning could take place, there was possibly some missed learning. I appreciate that there is the issue of confidentiality, but there could be ways around this so that this is not compromised.

Geraint made a special effort to tailor a niche subject to the role I and my HMT colleagues undertake, and it was much appreciated.

Very good trainer / content. I think if the case study continued to give further info as the stages progressed - staff would have been more engaged throughout eg mums engagement became clear at stage 2.

Phil the trainer was excellent. Feels like the course manual needs a refresh, and the assessment questions are impenetrable and need a rewrite.

Excellent course, Phillip Bond made everything clear and involved everybody in the course/tasks. The training is excellent, however it just does not really apply to our role - this is not a criticism of the supplier. My only criticism is, as the course content doesn't apply to our role, we should not be required to provide a case study related to our area of work (in the assessments). This could be adjusted to require just a general case study, however I recognise this would have been difficult for BS to pre-empt.