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Could the support workers to get the student to sign the form, and make it the support worker's responsibility to return them to you? They are the people who have a vested interest in this, as they want to get paid. We designed a form for note-taking pay claims with space for the student's signature against each session, but standard payroll claim forms do not include spece for this. Our payroll can't pay weekly so support workers are paid monthly in arrears - and forms only need to be processed once a month. For Dyslexia Support we only ask students to sign for support received at the end of each term, (or final support session). The tutor is responsible for getting the student to sign and for returning the forms to us. This usually works well, but occasionally we have to chase up students who have dropped out of support before signing the form. Clare Davies -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Baxter, Chris Sent: 25 June 2003 10:35 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: student confirmations 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 [log in to unmask] http://www2.ntu.ac.uk/sss/disability/ This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private or confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, you must take no action on it nor show a copy to anyone. Please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email which do not relate to the business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the university.