If you are an approved gateway, or an existing or potential employer for the Kickstart scheme you are welcome to join our community of good practice. The forum meets regularly, usually once a month with the wider group and smaller working groups form at other times to take forward things like finance and payment queries.  Please take a moment to check out our Kickstart Community Forum page here.  Kickstart Community Forums – rules for teams chat The team at ERSA have received feedback and some complaints about negative posts in the Kickstart Forum post meeting chat. Whilst we want to support the wider Kickstart community ERSA members have stated that they do not want to be associated with some of the negative posts that have come from outside the employment support sector. The employment support sector has a productive and collaborative relationship with the DWP and ERSA will protect and preserve this. Therefore, we are introducing some ground rules: This is a forum to share good practice. It is a forum for employment support providers, community-based Kickstart initiatives and youth organisations. ERSA will use the chat to cascade information from the DWP to the wider Kickstart network. ERSA’s intention is to build a Kickstart community of collaboration and good practice. The ERSA team do not want to police the post meeting chat, but if ERSA members express concerns, we will investigate and reserve the right to remove people and content.