The report may cover the following areas:
Assessment
- Where information came from (this might include EP support in the past).
- What your child or young person thinks and hopes for.
- What parents or carers and school staff think.
- A summary of important background information.
- Information from other people who work with your child.
- How your child is doing in learning and in school life, including things like talking and listening, learning and thinking, friendships and feelings, and any hearing, sight, movement, or health needs.
- A clear summary that brings all the information together, explaining the main things that affect your child’s learning, and what their needs are.
Outcomes
- If the EP has held a meeting where everyone plans together (known as a Joint Assessment Meeting or JAM for short) they will usually agree some outcomes. These are the changes that parents or carers, the young person, and the adults who know them well hope to see by a certain time.
- This can include bigger goals for the future, for example what they hope will be better by the end of the next key stage.
- Schools and other education settings should also set and check smaller, shorter goals, even if these are not written in the main plan.
Educational provision, facilities and resources
- What your child needs to learn in school.
- Ways of teaching that are most helpful.
- Any extra help your child needs.
All our educational psychologists are DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checked to make sure they are safe to work with children.
If you have any questions, please talk with your school first. If you then still have questions after that, please contact us. You can email educationlearnersupport@devon.gov.uk.