Movement, Sensory Motor Skills

We also provide support and resources to early years settings to minimise the number of children experiencing delays with their physical development and consequent impact on independence, social interaction, and managing the academic demands of school life.

Support for schools

All of our staff are experienced practitioners with additional training in the area of movement and coordination. We work with children and young people between the age of two and 19.

The range of work undertaken includes:

• Detailed motor skills assessments of children and young people referred for intervention.
• Devise/develop intervention programmes to be delivered through an adult working on a daily basis with the identified child or young person.
• Updating and monitoring the programmes of individual children and young people.
• Providing information regarding the success of intervention.
• Contributing to assessments of special educational need as appropriate.
• Providing training in the implementation and delivery of programmes.

Request for involvement forms can be downloaded from the Templates, referral forms and reports page on the Local Offer.

Funding arrangements

Our service is funded through a combination of central funding, grant funding, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

All schools in the county are able to access a small amount of free service, additional service is available through Service Level Agreements:

Costs for individual schools

• £210 for a single visit (three hours).
• £580 for three visits.
• £6,825 Community of Learning or school cluster packages which includes:
  • provision of the Early Years Movement programme in all nurseries/ foundation stage settings if requested with termly reviews
  • additional individual pupil referrals (60 max/COL or cluster) youngsters aged two to 18 who will be assessed and provided with specifically targeted interventions
• Increasingly more individualised packages are being offered in combination with other services to clusters of schools or Communities of Learning.

Contact Educational Psychology Service for more information.