Local Officers and Practitioners
Solihull Educational Psychology Service provides the following to officers and practitioners of the Directorate for People, Solihull Council in support of children and young people.
Consultation
- Duty Line for Council Officers
- Anti-Bullying & Personal Safety Strategy – professionals group
- Common Assessment Framework
- Family Support & Parenting Strategy
- Meadow Centre Pathways for Complex Needs (under 6 and over 6)
- Equality & Diversity
- Education for Children in Care
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health strategy group
- Targeting Mental Health in Schools – TaMHS
- Children Missing Education inter-agency monthly panels
- Emergency Planning – Health and Welfare group
- English as an Additional Language (EAL) inclusion group
- EAL/SEN working group
- Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) steering group
- Inclusion and Access work group
- Wider Directorate Management Team
- Local Area Leadership Teams – LALT (integrated working)
- Personal Social Development (PSD/SEAL) steering group
Assessment
- Providing Psychological Advice for children and young people with the most complex special educational needs, as part of the Statutory Assessment of SEN or Common Assessment Framework.
- Attending panel that moderates referrals for Statutory Assessments
- Electronic reporting of bullying and racist incidents
- Attending Annual Reviews for children and young people attending out of borough schools and live away from home
- Monitoring of Home-Based Programmes
- Attending SEN Tribunals
Intervention
- Pathway for school anxiety/refusal
- Emergency Advice and Support for Education (EASE) guidance for schools
Training
- EASE Training for Education Welfare Service, Educational Psychology and associated services to support education settings in an emergency situation
- Equality and Diversity training for the Directorate for People
Research and evaluation
- Anti-Bullying schools’ audit
- Anti-Bullying pupil survey for 11-18 year olds
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker Children (UASC) resilience data collection
- Prevent Violent Extremism (PVE) action research