[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service

Perhaps we should approach the problem the other way round and ask EP's if
they would be willing to spend 6 hours in school and write 3 reports for
£600 a day and all could benefit.

Currently around £400 per report if done independently by a parent and why
it is not often done unless said parent is in pursuit of a statement.

EP reports do not necessarily give all the detail one might hope for
especially if you are hoping to get a simple list of all the support a child
needs to access education on a equal footing with peers.  Or they drop hints
such as 'handwriting is untidy and referral to OT ....or any other
agency...could be appropriate'.  This ends up as being a multi agency task
and why it is imperative that SENco's have better (and free) access to
training on identification and assessment to rule out or support lesser
problems.  This way few actually need the services of an EP.

Even if the report is excellent with a plethora of test results and encoded
paragraphs of support needs I have found the schools do not know how to
decode the report for detail or know how or what to implement unless it is
spelled out in black & white - did I mention more access to training?

If you are getting an EP in spread the cost and make it a SENco cluster
training a day on EP report reading and then a 2nd one on assessment test
application and interpretation.

Sharon Tringham

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