Educational Psychology Service

The Educational Psychology Service provides schools with advice regarding learning, behaviour, emotional and social development, and mental health; assessment of needs; and planned interventions to promote learning and support psychological wellbeing.

The service seeks to work proactively with schools to ensure there is early identification of children who might benefit from support. Wolverhampton’s Virtual School works very closely with our EP Service to support our children and schools. We also have a small team of dedicated Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists who work closely with us, both proactively and reactively, to support our children and the staff working with them in schools across the country.

The service provides a range of offers including:

• A free telephone consultation service to parents/carers living in Wolverhampton, and also to parents/carers of children or young people in the care of Wolverhampton Local Authority. The service can provide advice on a wide range of areas, including supporting children’s social and emotional development, responding to children’s worries, understanding and responding to children’s behaviour and supporting positive relationships. More information and access to the service can be found on the website Parent/Carer Consultation Service.
• A range of training and CPD. This includes ELSA training for school staff to help meet the emotional needs of children and young people through responsive school based support Wolverhampton Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) Training and Support
• A whole-school development project , ATTUNE, focussed on further developing attachment aware and trauma informed practice. Information and registration details can be found here ATTUNE - Attachment aware; Trauma informed; Trusting relationships; Understanding; Nurturing; Emotional Well Being