LDP Educational Psychology

LDP Educational Psychology is concerned with the development, learning, achievement and well being of children and young people. Members of the team work with staff of pre-school settings, schools and colleges and with parents / carers to try to bring about positive change for children who are experiencing difficulties.

The team is part of Learning and Development Partnership (LDP) working closely with CYPS Social Services and Health Service colleagues to improve outcomes for children and young people. The team contributes to strategic planning within the Local Authority by using information from direct work to inform policy and practice development. The team contributes to a wide range of inter-agency planning and implementation groups.

The team aims to help its users to achieve better outcomes for all Devon children through specialist consultation, advice and support.

Staffing
LDP Educational Psychology comprises educational psychologists, advisory teachers for social, emotional and behaviour difficulties and for autistic spectrum disorders, specialist support assistants and family workers, as well as administrative staff. The team is organised into three locality units, based in Barnstaple, Exeter and Totnes. Each team services a group of learning communities and the children, young people and families living in those learning communities.

Service delivery
The work of the LDP Educational Psychology is organised into three main areas:

• Managing the needs of individual children and young people (mainly through supporting schools and pre school settings in assessing and planning of intervention work through joint investigation and problem solving at early years / school action and early years / school action plus)
• Work with children and young people who are identified as particularly disadvantaged or vulnerable – including children who are in care to the Local Authority, children who live with domestic violence, children without a school place, children at risk of exclusion, children who may be subject to discrimination, bullying or harassment and children with particularly complex needs
• Work with schools at an organisational level to enhance their capacity to meet a wide range of needs (through policy development work, training, teacher coaching, action research)

Time is allocated to each of these activity areas and learning communities receive the highest percentage of Service time.

Individual schools are also able to purchase additional educational psychology time through LDP.

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