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Hi Liz

There is a company called Randstad HR Solutions who provide support workers the Universities across the UK. I haven't met with them but it might be worth trying and they state their service is free of charge to Universities and Colleges.

Randstad HR Solutions, 114 Bridge Street, Warrington, WA1 2RU.

Tel: 0845 130 4655

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Regards

Elspeth

Elspeth McGregor
Assistant Disability Adviser
Advice and Development Service
Student Development and Support Services
Cottrell Building
University of Stirling
STIRLING
FK9 4LA
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466987
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From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Silver, Liz
Sent: 04 November 2008 14:54
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Notetakers and dealing with demand

Hi,

We employ an internal pool of notetakers . We do additional recruitment of notetakers during September to cope with the known demand (current students and new ones who we know about ) and allow for an additional need for the service from students who do not get in touch until after term starts. However, this year we cannot cover all the demand for notetakers due to more students than usual coming to see us and one or two notetakers resigning for various reasons.

There don't seem to be any agencies where we can get temporary staff from (if HR allow) who might have the skills and awareness of what they needed to do. We may be able to recruit additional notetakers in the next couple of months, but this will not deal with the immediate situation.

Any thoughts or ideas as to dealing with this situation would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Cheers,

Liz

Liz Silver
Disability Officer
Student Support Services
Nottingham Trent University
Working Monday to Thursday
Phone: 0115 848 4495
Minicom: 18001 0115 848 4495
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