Practitioners:
What Schools Can Expect From The Service
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Tameside Educational Psychology Service is an evidence based consultation service.
This means that our work starts with collaborative and empowering conversations in the hope of bringing about positive change for children, young people, school staff and families.
Tameside Educational Psychology Service was co-produced with children and young people across Tameside therefore what is important to children and young people is at the forefront of our service delivery model. We currently provide services online and face-to-face where appropriate.
The exact nature and time required for our work will be determined at the planning meeting. Possible ways in which schools often use Educational Psychology time include:
Useful Documents
- Request for Involvement Form
- Service Level Agreement
- EPS Brochure
- Parent/Carer Educational Psychology Information Leaflet
Statutory Services
The Local Authority will provide statutory services to schools, settings and partner agencies. There will be no charge for these statutory services which include:- The provision of Psychological Advice as part of the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) assessment process, when requested by the Local Authority SEN Team.
- Updated advice for pupils with EHCPs, when requested by the SEN Team.
- Other work commissioned by the Local Authority via the SEN panel.
- Critical Incident Support Service.
Traded Services
In addition to the above Statutory services, schools, settings and partner agencies now have the opportunity to purchase a wide range of packages of support through a service level agreement (SLA), as ‘traded services’. This can be requested online via the Services for Schools website: Services for Schools and Settings | Tameside (tamesideservicesforschools.uk) or you can contact us directly on EP@tameside.gov.uk to complete a paper SLA. We work on an annual basis and therefore asks that requests for our services are submitted in the summer term prior to the next academic year.
Services may be purchased by an individual school or a cluster of schools. The traded packages that we provide for the academic year 2024-2025 are as follows:
Cost for Traded Packages for schools and colleges:
Package 1 - £3,000 (Academies +VAT)
- Casework (2 cases)
- School development work (e.g. workshops)
- Access to virtual consultation drop-in service
Package 2 - £6,000 (Academies + VAT)
- Casework (4 cases)
- School development work (e.g. workshops)
- Access to virtual consultation drop-in service
Package 3 - £8,000 (Academies + VAT)
- Casework (6 cases)
- School development work (e.g. workshops)
- Access to virtual consultation drop-in service
Package 4 - £10,000 (Academies + VAT)
- Casework (8 cases)
- School development work (e.g. workshops)
- Access to virtual consultation drop-in service
Assistant Educational Psychologists
The service has begun an initiative to enhance our offer to schools through the recruitment of Assistant Educational Psychologists. These professionals have the prerequisites to apply for the doctoral training in Educational Psychology. They assist the service through conducting and supporting many of the functions of an Educational Psychologist including basic assessment work, information gathering, group work, individual intervention and training. Your named Educational Psychologist will advise you of activities that might be better supported or delivered by an Assistant. This will help to meet the needs of your school and the families you support.