Investigating primary and secondary school staff views on the level of need for educational psychology services in England: “What does good look like?”

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Table 1. Summary of working group meetings.

Meeting order	Working group actions
Meeting 1	Refine research questions, identify index schools and agree data collection methods.
Meeting 2	Scrutinise EP time allocation for commissioned work using collected data and local knowledge of services structure and context.
Meeting 3	Evaluation of the model.

Table 2. Descriptive statistics: key demographics for the four index schools.

Index School	Type of school	Notional SEN budget per pupil 2021/22	Pupils on roll	EHCP %	SEN support %	EAL %	FSM %	FTE Teacher	Pupil to teacher ratio	FTE TAs	Previous EP sessions purchased
											2020/21	2021/22
LNPS	Academy	446	433	3.93	10.39	20.3	16.6	20.4	21.1	14.7	4	16
HNPS	Maintained	894	671	1.49	21.16	63	50.75	35.9	17.9	35.7	76	76
LNSS	Academy	646	1663	2.41	18.8	15.6	15.4	91.3	18.2	17.4	19	19
HNSS	Academy	1042	1008	3.08	15.87	21.9	49.3	46	15.9	13.8	0	39

Nb. Population data from 2021/22; workforce data from 2018/19 (DfE, 2022)

Table 3. EP sessions requested based on forecasting template returns from index schools.

Index School	EP sessions requested based on forecasting template*							Increase in number of EP sessions from 2021/22	% Increase from 2021/22
	Total	Consultation	Assessment	Training	Intervention	Research	Other
LNPS	28	11	6	2	5	4	0	12	75
HNPS	192	49	49	10	78	0	6	116	153
LNSS	45	15	10	5	10	2	3	26	137
HNSS	186	50	50	8	78	0	0	147	377

*These numbers are a combination of the sessions requested by school staff who gave detailed reasoning for requests, with additional sessions identified by the working group to ensure sufficient time to meet identified needs.

Table 4. EP sessions for current and projected delivery to the four index schools.

Year	School traded	Non-school traded	Statutory	Non-front-facing time*	Total sessions	Total staff required**
Current year (2021/22)	2366	2366	3154	5368	13254	31
Projected year	10700	2366	3154	11041	27261	63

*CPD, management time, supervision, team meetings, leave, travel, etc.

**This includes a mixture of assistants, main grades, trainees, specialist seniors, seniors and principle EPs.

Table 5. Projected EP sessions for six identified schools compared with working group estimates.

School	Model projection (EP sessions)	Working Group assessment (EP sessions)	Difference
Primary 1	31	40	WG estimate +9
Primary 2	67	59	Model projection +8
Primary 3	121	80	Model projection +41
Secondary 1	164	106	Model projection +58
Secondary 2	100	124	WG estimate +24
Secondary 3	152	88	Model projection +64

DfE. (2022). School performance data. https://www.find-school-performance-data.service.gov.uk accessed 9/8/22.

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