ERIC Number: EJ680727
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jun-1
Pages: 12
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 33
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-7363
Getting It Right from the Start: Developing a Service Delivery Model for Non-Maintained Early Years Settings
Dennis, Ruth
Educational Psychology in Practice, v20 n2 p91-115 Jun 2004
In this paper, the author explores how Educational Psychology Services might respond to the requirement that they now deliver a service to all validated Early Years settings. In doing so, current service delivery to schools is critically examined and a number of difficulties identified. Five key elements to the development of such a service are propounded, in order to avoid the inherent difficulties identified in schools. These include elements that are under the direct control of educational psychologists and others that are of a more systemic nature. The paper concludes that although following such steps should lead to the development of a much improved model of service delivery, wider elements such as the nature of private provision and the legacy of previous educational psychologist practice may represent a threat to this development. As such, these areas present much scope for further investigation.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
Audience: Support Staff
Language: English
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