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SENDIPs

SEND Inclusion Practioners (SENDIPs)

SENDIPs are part of the Education Psychology Service, supporting settings as required, but particularly when pupils transition from one setting to another.

The SENDIP role includes:

  • supporting the educational transition of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
  • delivering information and training around SEND processes
  • implementing support to children identified through the Health Notification process
  • supporting early years settings in developing effective practice and applying for additional support, such as Early Years SEN Funding and EHC Plans
  • supporting families of children and young people with SEND who have newly arrived in the Local Authority
  • promoting effective partnerships between children and young people with SEND, their parents/carers and practitioners who work with them, in order to achieve positive outcomes.

The teams provide a direct service to all maintained schools and settings in Southwark, and to non-maintained schools and settings who purchase educational psychology services from Southwark EPS.

 

All schools maintained by Southwark are allocated a named ‘link EP’, whose input to an individual academy, school or setting is determined by the setting’s level of need. The link EP provides consultation, assessment and support to establish evidence-informed interventions at system, group and individual levels.

Non-maintained schools and settings can purchase educational psychology services from Southwark, either via a one-year service level agreement agreed in advance or at a higher daily rate, purchased as required where service capacity allows.

The educational psychologists and SENDIPs also support early years providers, children’s centres and other settings as required, particularly when pupils transition from one setting to another.

A joint decision to involve an educational psychologist would normally arise following an Assess-Plan-Do-Review cycle of SEN support in school.

Please contact Southwark's Educational Psychology Service to find out more.