"One of the difficulties we've got is that local authorities are just cutting back and not necessarily looking at what services they are going to need," Fallon explains.
"We've been working with our members in each local authority to put together packages of information and support to try to tease out what local authorities actually need to deliver."
But Fallon recognises that the system, in which educational psychologists are employed by every council, will be hard to maintain. "We are trying to engage with central government to find out what their vision for educational psychologists is," she says. "If they are going to leave local authorities with such a small budget, how else might educational psychologists be employed?"
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