Educational psychology service 2019/20
Description:
The educational psychology service (EPS) helps schools, early year’s providers, colleges, parents and carers to meet the needs of children with additional needs.
Year
Financial year 2019/20
Benefits
- The EPS has indepth knowledge of the services available to children and families across Ealing and can ensure close partnership working between schools and other local agencies
- We build up close relationships with schools and understand the unique context that each school has
- We are flexible in the services we offer and can provide brief invovlement as well as longer term support
- We can support parents who are struggling to come to terms with their child's additional needs.
Office hours:
Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm.
Planned improvements:
We will be offering more consultation meetings this year, to parents and teachers and SENCOs, where interventions can be agreed at the end of a focused problem solving meeting.
Service directors:
Debbie Grey
More detailed information:
We provide:
- Core service activities that take longer than the free allocated EPS time for each school funded through the annual levy
- Whole school work training, action research, targeted work (small groups of children or staff), or individual pupil / family work
- Whole school activities:
- Staff training on behaviour, SEN, ASD, Asperger's, ADHD, thinking skills, transition, down syndrome, specific learning difficulties etcetera
- School based action research, using EPS as consultant or project worker.
- Targeted activities:
- Group work with pupils on friends for life (preventing depression and anxiety), self esteem, thinking and study skills, social skills, parent support, reluctant learners and bereavement
- Group work with staff groups (teaching assistants, teachers, SEN staff in a high school, learning mentors), drop-in surgery
- Group work with parents – parenting courses, understanding their child’s SEN.
Related content:
Provider:
Educational psychology service, children and adults’services.
Contact:
- Judith Chambers-Thomas, Children and adults: jthomas@ealing.gov.uk020 8825 8775
Last updated: 17 Sep 2019
