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

Don't be defensive, Mary. It was a perfectly reasonable question for you to ask. I hope you've had some useful answers. However, it seems to me there's a much more fundamental debate on top.

Brian
> From: mary.kelly4 at ntlworld.com> To: SEN at tringham.net; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:23:34 +0100> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] [SENco-forum] Advice Please- use of EP service> > Dear All,> > I originally asked for advice about how to make best use if this service and> I am grateful to those of you who responded.> > As it now seems to have become a request for me to justify why I have taken> this route, I will respond as follows:-> > 1. I do have the training to understand the recommendations in an EP report,> that's not a problem for me/us.> 2. I have already established a local mutual support group of SENCos and> SLTs and others in the independent sector, who meet half-termly to share> ideas and support each other.> 3. All or most of these people share my wish to have access to an EP who> will come into school, employed by the school, and work closely with us.> None of them have achieved it, I don't know the detailed reasons why.> 4. I expressed this wish to the LA EP who comes in to work with us in> connection with a child with a statement. This person has a private EP> practice but felt that if we obtained private services then there could> potentially be a conflict of interest. A discussion was had with the LA and> my HT and an arrangement has just been made.> 5. I am looking forward to being able to better support a greater number of> children at a lesser cost by this route.> > That's probably all I want to say on the subject for now.> > Mary> > -----Original Message-----> From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk> [mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of> SEN at tringham.net> Sent: 07 April 2008 08:48> To: Becta Senco> 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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