Bond Solon Reviews

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 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.

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.

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.

It would have been useful to link more closely to our policies and procedures. Perhaps an introduction to put into context. I learned a lot from the officers on the course who were already experienced.

Really good course and very beneficial due to the limited exposure most 'experienced' officers get to deal with search warrants.

It was a good course and I went away knowing more about different conflict styles and how I can approach conflict effectively. I would say that it could have been shorter and didn't need a full day. Also we didn't have access to course material which was supposed to have been sent beforehand.