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

Do maintained schools not have to buy EPS services from their> devolved funding?

>>Do maintained schools not have to buy EPS services from their> devolved funding? 

No, EPS is funded by top slicing from the budget, therefore -except in the sense that there is no such thing as a free lunch- it is free to schools. EPS is there to serve the Local Authority, if you want an EP, there are plenty of independent ones who'd gladly take your money.

>>Is it not unqualified good news for the autistic, dyslexic> and SLI children in my school, that we can now access the same level of> advice that their peers in maintained schools can access?> 

If your parents want the same access to EPs as those in maintained schools, the answer is pretty simple, I'd have thought.

I can't believe there is an EPS in the country that has the capacity to meet the needs of all its LA customers and then move into the marketplace without the maintained schools going short. But, good luck to an EPS that can do it. 

Brian

And no cake jokes. 
Mainly because I can't think of any

> From: mary.kelly4 at ntlworld.com> To: hepburnbrian at hotmail.com; j.scaysbrook at ntlworld.com> CC: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk> Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service> Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 20:22:08 +0100> > Dear Brian,> > I have counted very slowly to ten and still I cannot let this go. Are our> parents and our children somehow lesser mortals than those in maintained> schools? Do maintained schools not have to buy EPS services from their> devolved funding? Is it not unqualified good news for the autistic, dyslexic> and SLI children in my school, that we can now access the same level of> advice that their peers in maintained schools can access?> > Or will you tell us to eat cake?> > Mary> > -----Original Message-----> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of brian hepburn> Sent: 06 April 2008 19:57> To: Jane Scaysbrook> Cc: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service> > > >> > are you funny or nasty, can't decide?> > Ah, I haven't lost it then.> > As for this thread....> > I have no idea of the details of the Service Level Agreement and therefore> didn't want to comment too hysterically. However, I am shocked that, on the> surface, a LA EPS is selling itself to the independent sector and therefore> depriving the children and families of its service. > > Every child, every parent, every SENCO in a maintained school or employee of> an LA should be heading to the barricades right about now, I'd have thought.> Sorry, you can't have your EP today, she is busy earning cash at an> independent school. > > > > Cheers> > Brian> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "brian hepburn"> <hepburnbrian at hotmail.com>> To: <> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:10 PM>> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service> > > > > We have> just successfully negotiated an arrangement with our local EP> > > service> so that I can have access to advice by email and telephone, and > > one>> half-day visit per term. This is brand new to me (and to the LA) > > because> we> are an independent school.>> > Go on, Martin. Justify this.> > Wouldn't> you love to know the costings? I bet the PEP has got a new carpet > for his> office and the staff Xmas party is paid for.> > Brain>> _________________________________________________________________> Amazing> prizes every hour with Live Search Big Snap> http://www.bigsnapsearch.com> >> > _________________________________________________________________> Welcome to the next generation of Windows Live> http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live> 
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