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

We may be in danger of moving into interesting waters here. I'd have thought the big debate is, what do schools, parents and LAs want from EPS? And what do EPS want to do for them? Bet you the answers are wildly different.

If the answers are wildly different, how can the be reconciled?

Brian> From: SEN at tringham.net> To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:47:54 +0100> Subject: Re: [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> > > No virus found in this outgoing message.> Checked by AVG.> Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.8/1362 - Release Date: 06/04/2008> 11:12> > > > 
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