A lovely morning celebrating Our Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) graduation this morning. Well done Mrs Clarke #stockportELSAs

Today the result of our recent SEND revisit were published on the Ofsted website, and we're thrilled that we were found to be much improved! Read more on the council website: orlo.uk/wd9Id

Pleased to be sharing our updated Anxiety Based School Avoidance (ABSA) at our training sessions. We have now trained over 110 school staff and members of our school support services to use the ABSA resources and improve school attendance across Stockport. #EBSA #ABSA #twitterEP

Come and speak to us at the SEND information day today at the Alma Lodge.

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One of our amazing ELSAs baked us these delicious emoji themed biscuits for supervision today! Thank you Julie. Just another example of what lovely, caring people all of our ELSAs are 😊

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Lovely to see so many people attend our Lego Based Therapy training yesterday.

A drastically different approach is needed to tackle SEND crisis. Today, with 16 organisations we deliver this very important message to Bridget Phillipson Department for Education to demand change. #SENDreform #SENDrevolution BPS DECP

You can read the letter in full here and share widely in your communities to demand a SEND revolution 🙌🏼 #TwitterEPs #SENDrevolution shorturl.at/5g93E

📮 We are here today with Dr Joanna Stanbridge and backed by 16 organisations to deliver a very important message to Bridget Phillipson Department for Education #SENDRevolution #TwitterEPs

Good to see so many schools attending our latest Anxiety Based School Avoidance training. Delivered by Corinne Winters, Senior EP and Wendy Cathie, Education Welfare Service

Dame Christine Lenehan appointed as Government Strategic SEND Adviser. Phillipson on SEND: "Now is the time for bold reform. And let me be clear: the direction of that reform is inclusive mainstream… 1/

Great turn out for our ELSA Conference today. An opportunity to learn about and practice using externalising techniques and also to celebrate the excellent work our ELSAs are doing day to day in schools.

Excited to read the journal article on gaining consent by Stockport EP, Dr Althea Lyons, in the latest edition of Educational Psychology in Practice Association of Educational Psychologists Stockport Council

As the term draws to a close, we would like to wish all our school staff, parents/ carers and pupils a Merry Christmas and happy New Year. Best wishes from Stockport Educational Psychology Service

Enjoyed meeting the staff and pupils at Didsbury Road Primary School for an assembly ahead of Children’s Mental Health Week. We used the CBT model to learn why we feel the way we do and considered changes we can make to improve how we feel #twitterEPs #WeEatElephants #LLTTF

Great turn out yesterday for pactstockport event yesterday. So many useful conversations with parents and carers

“Evidence-based interventions don’t work for everyone...some of the evidence can be around what works for a particular child” David Collingwood, AEP President, spoke to Schools Week on why EHCP recommendations could be failing some children #TwitterEPs schoolsweek.co.uk/fidget-spinner…

On #IWD2025, we recognise Waveney Bushell. The UK's first Black female educational psychologist, who challenged racial inequalities in education and fought for Black children’s rights. Watch her oral history: bps.org.uk/psychologist/o…