Educational Psychology Service

The Educational Psychology Service (EPS) is based at the Education Department's headquarters in the Grange.

The Service applies psychology to the education of all children and young people in the following ways:

• Involvement in Education Department projects, such as research and evaluation, training related to schools and pupils and development of procedures
• School based development projects related to teaching, learning, behaviour and child development
• Casework with individual children and young people (2 -19 years) with additional needs that significantly impact on their learning.
  The additional needs could be related to any difficulties, for example:
  physical, sensory, social, emotional, behavioural, communication, thinking skills such as memory and logical thinking
• Joint agency planning and developments for children and young people

How the Educational Psychology Service arranges the work it carries out

Education Department projects and joint agency developments are discussed and agreed with other Education and Health & Social Services Department (HSSD) professionals, based on knowledge of children and young people, schools and Departmental objectives for the Bailiwick.

Each school in the Bailiwick has a named Link Educational Psychologist (EP). The Link EP regularly meets with school staff (usually the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCO) and Headteacher) to discuss where the EP will focus their work with that school:

• General advice
• Involvement in development projects and training
• Casework with individual pupils

EP individual casework with children not in school (pre-schoolers, Educated Otherwise, off-Island) is carried out by the Link EP for the catchment area in which the child lives.

A list of the current Link EP for each school is available from the EPS office.

The part of EPS work where most people meet Educational Psychologists is through individual casework. Further information is available which describes what we do when working with individual children and young people.

How EPs become involved in individual casework

EPs casework with individual children and young people happens where:

• There is parental permission to do so
• The child or young person has an additional need that is significantly affecting their learning
• For school pupils, where the School has already put strategies in place to support the pupil and one of the SEN support services has been involved with the pupil

For pre-school children - parents, pre-school managers and HSSD professionals can request EP involvement.

For school-age children and young people - EP work with individual pupils is requested by the school SENCO, in keeping with SEN Guidelines.

If a parent or other professional directly asks for EP involvement, the EP discusses this request with the SENCO to decide with them whether or not EP casework is appropriate and gives general advice where it is not.

For children and young people not in school - parents may request EP involvement, which is followed up as appropriate.

The Educational Psychology Service Team and Areas of Responsibility

Karen Hazzan - Principal Educational Psychologist
Service management and leadership
Member of Education Department Special Educational Needs Management Team
Link EP for named schools

Alison Ring - Senior Practitioner Educational Psychologist
Lead EP for Early Years (pre-school through to Reception Year). This includes linked work with HSSD professionals
Link EP for named schools

Rachel Sharp - Educational Psychologist
Lead EP for Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Link EP for named schools

Dr Charlotte Friel - Educational Psychologist
Lead EP for Social, Emotional and Behavioural needs of children and young people
Link EP for named schools

All Guernsey EPs are Chartered Educational Psychologists.

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