Ealing Early Years Childcare and Play

Gatekeeping template

Title: New ERSA Template 2016 Summary: A new ERSA template including revised wording in certain areas and further clarification to various elements. For attention of: Heads & Sencos of: nurserys/children's centres, primary schools, high schools & colleges Author: Geraldine Wassell Contact: Geraldine Wassell Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 825 8581 Gatekeeping Gatekeeping is distributed on Wednesdays term-time only, distribution date: download the ‘Gatekeeping deadline and distribution dates calendar’ from www.egfl.org.uk/gatekeeping Action required/ Begin to use the new ERSA wef 01/08/2016. due date:

The ‘Gatekeeping template’ is for non CPD items. If your item is about a CPD opportunity please complete the ‘CPD gatekeeping template’ which you can download from www.egfl.org.uk/gatekeeping

Only items that are correct, complete (above template fully completed), timely (i.e. achievable deadline dates) and relevant are accepted by the EGfL web team: [email protected].

If you utilise the ‘Action required/due date’ facility on the template (i.e. complete our survey by 12 December), an automatic reminder will appear at an appropriate time on the gatekeeping newsletter’s ‘Forthcoming Deadline’ section without you taking further action.

Your full gatekeeping item goes here.

New ERSA We have revised the ERSA (Ealing Request for Statutory Assessment), it should now be a lot easier to fill out electronically and save you time. It is attached below and is also downloadable on available on Ealing Grid for Learning . Please start using this for any new eligible requests that you have to submit. We would also like to convey a big thank you to all education settings that have been sending in their ERSAs electronically. This has really helped improve our processes and also the service received by children / young people.

ERSA Guidance

Completing an ERSA  Please ensure that prior to submitting an ERSA that the thresholds for EHC needs assessment have been reviewed on Ealing Grid for Learning .  Download a copy to keep and use as a template for future submissions.

 You can complete all of the sections apart from signatures electronically.

 You can attach a picture on the front page using the icon to navigate to a saved picture on your computer.

 Please see the ‘Consent Table’ on page 11. Ealing want to ensure that parents are aware of the different parties involved in the assessment process and how information is shared. Please make sure when completing the ERSA that parents / carers and child / young people (where appropriate) are aware of this table and they sign off consent appropriately.

 We are encouraging the use of our independent and impartial services to improve support at the start of statutory assessment process. Gaining their agreement at the beginning will greatly assist with improving their understanding of the system and the responsibilities of each party involved.

 Please complete all contact details, including: parent / carer, GP and any other appropriate family member. This will allow any relevant services who need to be involved in the EHC assessment process to make the arrangements required to move the process forward.

Submitting an ERSA  Please send in any ERSAs to our shared email box: [email protected].  ERSAs should be sent via email, as this is both quicker to send and receive and faster to process.  Emails should have a subject in the format of ”ERSA” and “your setting’s name” and “pupil initials”.  Please also ensure that any emails that you send containing confidential information are sent by a secure emailing system. The council uses: www.egress.com to encrypt any confidential information and enables the recipient to respond to emails for free.  All documents relating to the ERSA should be attached within the same email.