In line with the Student Behaviour Policy, there are changes to the way suspensions and formal cautions are recorded. A positive aspect of this change is that we are no longer required to duplicate the entry of suspensions. Suspension recording done in third party software does not need to be duplicated in ERN.   

PPA executive continue to be involved in regular meeting with the IER team, as well as daily meetings with Sentral to support successful change to more efficient ways of working under the new policy.   

Sentral are responding to issues, questions and concerns with frequent overnight updates and have created a range of resources to support schools with the new processes.

This Sentral video tutorial is a handy overview of how to create suspension records in Sentral. Sentral has also published this help guide for recording suspensions. We can expect enhanced letter templates on Sentral in the next week.

These comprehensive QRGs for updating behaviour and suspension records in ERN have been released by the Department and you can refer to this Staff Noticeboard article from Term 3 Week 9 for more information.  

A number of questions have been received about why formal cautions appear in the suspension categories in Sentral. As formal cautions belong under the suspension part of the Student Behaviour Policy, this is not an error and we do need to adjust to recording formal cautions in this way.  

Please continue to raise any issues or concerns through EdConnect and the Sentral Help Centre, where relevant, so these issues can be tracked and resolved as quickly as possible. As always, please continue to reach out to us for any support, questions, clarification or feedback.