Respect for professional autonomy also contributed to taskforce members’ workloads. The way in which respect was interpreted precluded judgement of the quality of programmes because such judgement inevitably reflected on an individual’s professional work. In the absence of judgements about programme quality, the only question taskforce members were able to ask was ‘What more should we be doing?’ These taskforce norms reflected those within the school in that such issues were not for public discussion. The management challenge, therefore, is to develop a professional climate in which the issue of programme effectiveness becomes a legitimate subject for debate.