Bond Solon Reviews

Due to problems with IT there were several interuptions but these were over come.

There are some examples that don't follow the course. EG Pg 23 the example is not relevant to the course, it's not an acquisitive crime to discuss. Which then follows onto page 24 where D is assumed to be D in the earlier example. Another example on pg 25 attempts to demonstrate the removal of the 6 months offence period to lose Lifestyle however the underlying fraud of non payment of tax to the tune of £50k would probably hit lifestyle and lastly pg 80 the first paragraph says "Perhaps an estimate of time, such as" and then gives an example of the estimate of value of money. My last point about the document is that 2 chapters have virtually the same titles (7 & 8) and the material is almost repeated - maybe these can be merged? I loved the previous 2 Bond Solon courses, but this seemed that it wasn't quite ready to go ahead. The material is littered with spelling and punctuation errors, and I just felt the course was fleshing out the pre-read. Maybe a slideshow/PowerPoint would be a better tool for the presenter and then the students can follow in the pre-read? Also break-out rooms so that students can engage. There were a couple of students that never spoke but there wasn't even a check to see if people were "in the room" when we came back from a break. Please don't get me wrong, the presenter Olwen, was great. She had some lovely stories, which I found was the same with all the Bond Solon trainers, demonstrating their experience and skills. I just felt the material let her down. It was also nice learning that she had worked for defence which encouraged a couple of questions and opinions to obtain that point of view.

I feel that some ofthe course content was aimed at to low of levle to the people within the course and the atendiees would have already know about the subject matter. For example the difference between the internet and WWW.

I realise this course is in its infancy, whilst I found this course interesting as a refresher to the legislation, I struggled to focus. I think its already been mentioned but the exercises could be completed in break out rooms to encourage debates and discussions. Some examples that are relevant to our role within HMRC would also be useful I think remote learning however is very difficult for the CD to manage and to gauge a participants engagement with the delivery. thankyou :)

Brilliant engaging course

Informative to practice role.

Richard was brilliant thanks very much

very knowledgeable thank you

Excellent training. Very enjoyable

Richard made it really relevant to our specific role, he was funny and engaging and was very supportive on what was a demanding and rewarding course!