Services offered 2012/13 - Sunderland Learning Hub

• Liaison with other professionals• Detailed observation and analysis of learning and behaviour• Specialist assessment of all areas of development and learning• Written reports providing analysis of findings and recommended ways forward to promoteprogressb) Activities such as staff training, work with groups of children and groups of parents anddrop-ins for staff. These activities can be tailored to fit academy or free schoolrequirements. Staff expertise covers a wide range of topics, including:• Working memory• Motor co-ordination• Running solution-oriented meetings• Responding to crisis, bereavement, loss and change• Anti-bullying (Method of Shared Concern)• Circle Time• “Friends” programmes for different age groups• Webster-Stratton Incredible Years programme• Speakeasy programme (to help parents talk to children about sex)SERVICE DELIVERY MECHANISM:Centrally retained functions:1. Requests for involvement made by the SEN Panel or SEN Unit will be sent via EducationalPsychology Administration to the Educational Psychology Team Leader in the appropriatelocality and allocated to the appropriate Educational Psychologist. It is expected that thesechildren and young people will already be within the Common Assessment Frameworksystem.2. Requests for Educational Psychology support in the event of a critical incident should bemade to the Principal Educational Psychologist Lynn Fletcher (0191 5618151, 07786091931, lynn.fletcher@sunderland.gov.uk)Purchased functions:1. Academies and free schools are able to buy into a Baseline Service, providing a termlyconsultation meeting and ongoing communication with a named Educational Psychologist bytelephone and email with the academy or free school’s nominated contact, usually theSpecial Educational Needs Co-ordinator.2. Academies and free schools can also buy additional packages providing a minimum numberof days of service delivery, the content of which will be determined by the school inconsultation with the named Educational Psychologist. Referral of individual children andyoung people can be made directly to the academy or free school’s named EducationalPsychologist without completion of a CAF form at this stage, although signed parentalpermission will be required.21