traded school support services 2015-16
Service Level Agreement /Package of Support
2015-2016
Educational and Chid Psychology Service
1. Purpose
The Stoke Educational and Child Psychology Service works in close partnership with
schools, settings and other providers of care and education for children. Our
involvements with children and young people are to enhance their:
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Achievement and wellbeing at school
Staying emotionally and mentally healthy
Staying safe, improving social behaviour and preventing bullying.
We do this by:
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Making assessments (or supporting others whom do this)
Intervening using evidence based approaches and programmes
Providing training for others to assess and intervene
Building capacity and competence to manage vulnerable individuals and
groups.
Stoke Educational Psychologists have a wide range of experience and very high
levels of expertise across all ages, types of SEN/LDD/additional needs and/or
emotional/mental health needs in vulnerable individuals and groups.
2. Content (include what the service does, anything new, other information
schools would find useful)
The service has core and additional functions.
The core functions are directed by statutory guidance and include: data collection for
a child or young person undergoing statutory assessment by the Local Authority;
intervening to prevent social exclusion and promoting the achievement and wellbeing
of children and young people. This means that the statutory functions of the service
are available free at the point of contact. These are; statutory assessment of Special
Educational Needs (after agreement of this from the Local Authority), Child Protection
meetings, emergency meetings to prevent exclusion from school or other placements,
Level 3 Early Help meetings where the purpose is to prevent Child Protection
proceedings. Core/Statutory activity (For Schools) involves:
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Activity
Planning delivery of our
time within school to
maximise effectiveness*
Helping School to develop
provision needed
Sessions
2 x ½ sessions a year –
Autumn & Spring Half
Term
2 sessions a year
Totals
1 session
Pupils with existing
Statements of SEN or
under Assessment
Assisting with staff or
whole school
development
Varies
Informed each year
1 session a year
2 sessions
1
session
* These activities are based on data available about vulnerable children attending
schools and the number of pupils with additional/special needs they provide for each
year.
The additional functions of the service are to enhance the capacity and competence
of anyone involved with vulnerable children and young people so that they can bring
about improved personal and educational outcomes for this group. This is done by
providing consultation, assessment, 1:1 work, support, group work, training, research
and development; and where needed by casework carried out by an Educational
Psychologist or carried out jointly with staff from other agencies. These functions form
the activities of the Service that are available for purchase – please see the list below.
For further information refer to the website, full Service Brochure and/or course flyers.
List of training available from the service:
Training Offered
Analysing BESD Needs and creating a
provision map
ASD – accredited (from 2012)
ASD – None accredited
Assessment and intervention for
language communication needs
Attachment
BESD
Circle of friends
Cognition/Learning
Early Years/ASD
Emotional Literacy
Emotional Regulation
Language/Communication
Memory training
Non-violent Communication
Peer tutoring
Physical Needs
Physical Needs (non-accredited 2012)
with possibility of accredited course
later
Anti-bullying
Aspects of planning for Additional/SEN
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Child Development
Circle Time – Students of staff
Critical Incidents/Bereavement
Down Syndrome 0-5
Evaluating Provision
Families/Parenting
Family nurture network
Infant Brain Development
Participation
Peer mentoring/meditation using RJ
Personal Plans/Person Centred Planning
Provision Maps
Research
Restorative Justice (RJ)
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Promoting positive behaviour
Role training for the ‘E’ in EBD
Social Skill Development
Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) e.g
dyslexia, dyscalculia
The Needs of Children in Care
Working with troubled children
Working with teams to develop policy
Specific topics of interest
Staff needs analysis for training
Transitions
Webster Stratton Parenting Intervention
(for behaviour)
Whole school
Working in Partnership/Early Support
List of interventions available from the service:
Interventions
Assessment that informs intervention
e.g. BESC, Cognition and Learning
(Including SpLD),
Language/Communication (Including
ASD), complex needs*
Consultation on evaluating provision
Emotional regulation of various types
Family Intervention/Visits
Group consultation for staff – to solve
problems
Mediation and Joint Working
Parents – relationships, managing
children
PATHS
Preventing exclusions
Role training for the ‘E’ in ‘Emotional’
Staff needs (training) analysis
With vulnerable individuals and groups
e.g. those in care
*Specialist assessments can be arranged
(e.g. for Family/Court work)
Circles of Adults
Managing change
Research and research design
Developing social skills – group
Repairing relationships
Developing policies
Using Restorative Justice (RJ)
Promoting the participation of children
Enhanced Thinking Skills (ETS)
Peer mentoring and mediation
Specific Therapeutic Intervention:
Bereavement Intervention
Circle of Friends
Enhanced Thinking Skills (Anger)
Group CBT for self-regulation and
awareness
Group: Friends for Youth (managing
anxiety)
Individual CBT
Life Story Work
SEAL – Gold
The ‘E’ in EBD – therapeutic stories
3. Benefits to schools and other settings
We are a local team who have a lot of knowledge about local services and solutions.
The Stoke-on-Trent psychologists are all experienced in a range of children and family
work and are highly regarded by schools and others. The rates for purchased time are
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very competitive compared to those of independent providers. The service assists
schools in meeting their responsibilities for:
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vulnerable pupils/groups
statutory functions for those on the edges of care and in care
statutory functions for identifying and meeting special educational needs
(before, during and after statutory assessment).
4. Schools Responsibilities
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to jointly plan the use of Service time and use the core sessions as agreed
to evaluate, with the Educational Psychologist, the work done with and on
behalf of the school carried out by the Educational Psychologist
to enable Educational Psychologists to work in an informed manner by
providing access to relevant information and people concerned
to reschedule planned work from the ECPS as early as it is known a child or
member of staff to be worked with will not be available
to bring matters that cannot be resolved face to face with an Educational
Psychologist to the attention of the Lead Educational Psychologist for
resolution.
5. Service Charges (include options as appropriate)
Service available
Statutory Activity
Core Activity
Whole day Involvement
Half day involvement
Hourly rate
Accredited Course/Training
Non-Accredited Course/ “
Non-Accredited Course/ “
Early Bird Purchase/3 days
Early Bird Purchase/2 days
Cost
Nil
Nil
£440
£220
£80
£80 pp/day
£50 pp/day
£25 pp/½ day
£1200
£800
NB: an Early Bird service one that is an advanced be spoke package we can create
to your requirements.
All academy costs are set at 10% above those quoted above.
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Principal Contacts & Dispute Resolution
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(Main service contact details)
Your primary contact for these
services, should you have any
comments or queries
Ruth Anaraki or Suzanne Rigby
Email : [email protected]
Educational and Child Psychology
The Mount Centre
Mount Avenue
Penkhull
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 7JU
Any unresolved complaints
relating to this service should
be made to:
Dr Val Legg, Lead Educational Psychologist
Email: [email protected]
Address as above
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