Essex and Manchester councils are among the first in the country planning to run their entire educational psychology services through arm's-length bodies, CYP Now has learned.
A spokeswoman for Essex Council said the new-look service would launch this September and be fully operational by April 2012.
Manchester Council was unable to comment on its plans, but a spokesman confirmed that proposals to set up the educational psychology service as a separate company have been officially signed off by the local authority's cabinet.
Meanwhile, a Department for Education (DfE) review into training arrangements for educational psychologists has signalled that increasing numbers of local authorities could follow the example of Essex and Manchester.
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