Chris,
We have the same system in place as you and the same pitfalls it would
seem!
Faye Langston
Disabilities Welfare Co-ordinator
Coventry University
"Baxter, Chris" wrote:
>
> Here I am sitting on a nice sunny day signing invoice request forms and
> pondering the question - how can we ensure students sign the
> confirmation of support forms....and I thought maybe disforum dwellers
> may have come up with some good wheezes?
>
> Currently we provide and pay for support (notetakers etc) each week
> through our payroll and claim the money back from the LEA's at the end
> of each term, at the same time as preparing the invoices we also produce
> a confirmation of support form which details the support the student has
> had and asks them to sign to confirm. This is in addition to weekly
> timesheets they sign for the noteakers to ensure we can pay them, but
> they don't sign anything for interpreters.
>
> It sounds like a good system doesn't it? But the fatal flaw, as ever, is
> student co-operation, they simply cannot remember to sign the form and
> send it back, does anyone else encounter this, and do they have any
> hints for ways round the problem?
>
> Of course not all students are un-cooperative (and few are deliberately
> so) but with 50 students being supported we sometimes struggle.
>
> Grateful for suggestions
>
> Chris Baxter
> 0115 8486163 voice and text
> 0115 8484371 fax
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