WRITTEN ON May 3rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, We told you so..., What do we want?

Oh dear oh dear. Head teachers say that stupid, bossy, intrusive, overcentralised poorly-designed pne-size-fits-all bureacracy is making it harder to get help to vulnerable kids (BBC):

The NAHT say a small-scale study among their officials in eight local authorities, representing 1000 schools, found that no-one thought the new system, known as the Common Assessment Framework (Caf), had led to an improvement in referrals to social services of children in difficulties..

*sigh* All I can suggest is they should describe exactly what it’s like and feed back using publicexperience.