QC checks

I was told that a demo test would be ok if a full test wasn't available @baz657

Although you are not required to log MOT quality checks on the MOT Testing Service, each NT must have at least one full QC check every 2 months!

I suggested getting local mates to qc each other when this crap first came in,there must be someone local to you that youre on talking terms with?gotta be cheaper.....

To the best of my knowledge single tester site's are not exempt

Testers guide  B6  copied and pasted hence poor format.

c. Where a VTS has one Tester it is expected that the AE should also have in
place a suitable means of assuring the quality of testing This could include
using a 3rd party assessor, a reciprocal arrangement with a local VTS. Where
this is not possible other methods should be used to ensure the quality of
testing e.g. the use of test quality reports to check the testers own
performance against the national statistics, noting reasons for differences and
any action taken if appropriate.

You can ask any VTS that you are registered with to do a QC check on you, in fact some insist on it that's what i do and the VTS keeps a record of it and i log it in my own records and is DVSA approved.

not last year, you mean May2011 SN03-2011. The reason I am asking is that the emphasis has been moved onto the AE to do all the paper recording whereas before it was recorded on the MOT system and acknowledged by the tester, whereas now also has to do paper recording. The concern is that all VTS AE all have to comply with the QC procedures, whereas the temping agencies freelance testers mostly do not mainly due to not being static at one VTS for any length of time, there for a day or a week and gone. At a guess they will rarely meet up with a VE to have their training log examined. There's no Digital MOT record to keep check on these testers any longer, whereas the static testers at VTS are every 2 months QC recorded, what VOSA created is a 2tier system VTS are regularly checked and sites risk score adjusted, whereas the temping agencies freelance testers failing to complete a QC at max of 2months are no longer liable to a disciplinary. Pete your an exception you are aware, the bulk of these temp freelance testers from agencies tend to evade being QC.

I keep copies of all SN and don't seam to have the one relating recently to any QC changes, if possible can you quote the SN number. I am basing my opinion on practical experience, I am static based at a VTS and seasonally do freelance temping either solo or through an agency, and what baldrick and his associates are doing is to be applauded. What you do dwain I have only experienced a few times, most places tend to only have a manager and a few techies, their only tester is either on holiday / sick or walked out, no chance of a QC there, I agree the onus for QC is on the AE, what I tried to point out is VTS are static whereas freelancers are mobile temps and are removed from the VTS tester list for when the VE turns up, and that no longer having a MOT online Digital record to prove a QC has been completed & most places have never asked, they do ask occasionally to see the yearly assessment cert & log. I have met up with other freelancers and discussed the usual is similar, your required to hit ground running ?