Request for Support Due Dates 2019

Request For Support due dates  (4:00 p.m.)                                            Request for Support allocation meeting dates: 
Term 2 2019
  • Thursday, 9th    May                                                                                   Friday, 10th May
  • Thursday, 23rd May                                                                                    Friday, 24th May
  • Thursday 6th     June                                                                                   Friday, 7th   June
  • Thursday, 4th    July                                                                                     Friday, 5th   July


Term 1 2019
  • Wednesday, 13th February                                                                        Friday, 15th February
  • Wednesday, 27th February                                                                        Friday, 1st March
  • Wednesday, 13th March                                                                             Friday, 15th March
  • Wednesday, 26th March                                                                             Friday, 29th March
  • Wednesday, 10th April                                                                                Friday, 13th April


Request for Support (RFS) to the RTLB service
RTLB follow a structured process which includes three main phases:
​1. Pre-request for support
2. Request for Support (Prioritisation and Allocation)
3. Practice Sequence

​​Pre-request for support

  • A pre-request for support discussion must take place with your liaison RTLB.  All requests for support (RFS) are completed online through our database.
  • A username and password are required.  Your Liaison RTLB will be able to provide this for you.   
  • *IMPORTANT* 
    • Please remember to continually press SAVE as you fill out the RFS.  You can complete the request over time and in sections but all will be lost if that save button is not pressed.
    • Completed RFS information for individual students must be shared with parents / whānau. Signed parents / whānau consent must be attached for all individual RFS.
  • Once the RFS is completed and the consent form is attached notify your liaison RTLB who will verify and submit  the form.​
  • On the database, consent forms can be downloaded from the section at the bottom of the page after RFS information has been entered and saved.
  • All attachments must be uploaded in PDF format 

Request for Support  & RTLB Practice Sequence​



​Request for Support (RFS)  Process (Prioritisation and Allocation)

  • A pre-RFS discussion needs to take place with the school's liaison RTLB.
  • A RFS needs to be completed by the school in the database.  This must be printed, signed by parents and signed off by the liaison RTLB, scanned and loaded up onto the database as a PDF file, press SAVE
  • Your liaison RTLB will check the RFS on line and then submit the application.  
  • The R4S allocation panel, consists of the Taranaki Cluster Manager & 2 RTLB lead practitioners, The panel meet fortnightly and use an equitable system for prioritising and allocating requests for support.
  • Schools will be notified about outcomes within a week of the fortnightly allocation meeting
  • Successful RFS will be allocated to an RTLB.  This will most likely be the liaison RTLB but at times, may be another RTLB, depending on current caseload demands or special expertise.
  • Some RFS may be put on hold if RTLB caseloads are full. Recommendations may be given and the RFS will be prioritised at the next allocation meeting and allocated as soon as the capacity to take on a new case arises.
  • Some RFS may not be successful. Recommendations may be given, including suggestions for referring to another agency.


RTLB Practice Sequence
  • Once a request for support has been prioritised and allocated, the RTLB responds by working through the RTLB practice sequence.  The 10 steps may not always be followed in order. Sometimes new information may require going back to a previous stage in the  sequence.
 
                           Ngā Whakaritenga / Waharoa      Step 1: Initial meeting

                           Whaikōrero                                      Step 2: Data gathering
                                                                                      Step 3: Analysis
                           Hongi / Kai Ngātahi                        Step 4: Goal Setting
                                                                                     Step 5: Planning
                                                                                     Step 6: Implementation
                                                                                     Step 7: Review Reflect and Refine
                                                                                     Step 8: Post implementation data gathering
                          Whakawātea                                    Step 9: Review, reflect (and either move to step 10 or return to an earlier step)
                                                                                     Step 10: Close
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Case closure
The RFS may close
  • when the collaborative team agrees that:  
               *  the intervention has led to agreed outcomes, or
               *  other agency/ support pathways need to be explored, or
               *  the kura / school has the capacity to support the referred student without RTLB support
  • when a student has been on the RTLB roll for more than 100 weeks
  • at the discretion of the Cluster Manager e.g. when a student has received extensive support from the RTLB service
  • when the student moves out of the region
  • when the student receives ORS
  • when the student finishes year 10
  • when consent has been withdrawn

A summary report will be completed upon case closure and sent to the RTLB Cluster Manager and School.