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Originally Posted by Hugh
Decision Makers are EOs (Executive Officers), not AOs (Administrative Officers), and they don’t "rubber stamp" the assessments - if this were so, why is there an initial 4 weeks training, followed by 4 weeks of QA, followed by another 4 weeks of further training, followed by another 4 weeks QA, before DMs are allowed to actively score assessments?
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I should have been clearer it was an "attempt" to do so by bringing in private sector providers to do assessments. The DWP weren't successful in pushing through the change, mainly because of the Harrington review. The clear intention was to ultimately remove Decision Making from EO 'considerative' Decision Makers to the AO grade in the longer term.
This failed early doors though.
https://assets.publishing.service.go...75/rrep788.pdf
There's some stuff in there about DMs feeling that they weren't being empowered to make decisions in the early stages. It would only have been a matter of time before that resulted in a job evaluation/grading exercise that downgraded the role.
There is also old case law about a decision needing to be made by an appropriately trained person acting on behalf of the secretary of state.