Hello Perhaps a senior officer can check the work that the officer does before it goes further? Standard practice in some places. Also the SA objectives will have been consulted on and decision making questions produced to aid the production of the SA - if those are used, some bias should be eliminated I think. No experience of another organisation checking as such before publication. But, during the various rounds of consultation on a DPD, the SA is out for consultation and you may get some responses about what the SA says - taking on board those comments at each stage of consultation will improve the SA and ultimately the DPD. Natalie
