Consultancy and Mentoring with Lia

Lia provides specialist consultancy and professional mentoring to support schools, colleges, training providers, assessors and professional organisations working within the access arrangements framework.

Support is evidence-led, grounded in current JCQ regulations, and focused on strengthening confidence, consistency and decision-making across access arrangements practice.

Consultancy and mentoring may address regulatory requirements, organisational processes, and complex individual cases, as well as wider strategic development.

Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.

  • Schools, Colleges and Training Providers

    Lia provides consultancy and mentoring to support centres in developing confident and compliant access arrangements practice, including:

    Application of access arrangements regulations.

    Advice on complex or borderline candidate cases.

    Review of centre policies, processes and documentation.

    Preparation for, and response to, JCQ centre inspections.

  • Assessors

    Lia provides mentoring, consultancy and training for assessors and assessors-in-training, including:

    Selection and use of assessment tools for access arrangements and diagnostic assessment

    Form 8 completion and evidence-based report writing

    Assessment processes, protocols and professional judgement

    Support for assessors setting up in independent practice

  • Professional Organisations

    Lia provides consultancy to professional and awarding organisations on:

    Access arrangements processes and regulatory frameworks.

    Professional standards in assessment and reporting.

    Standardised test use and interpretation.

    Supporting neurodivergent learners within assessment and examination contexts.