Community cohesion team

The service has a Bilingual Teacher Consultant and Bilingual Support Assistants who can support EPs in their work with children and parents/carers from diverse cultural backgrounds. They have a particular role in working alongside EPs and Assistant Psychologists in supporting children and their families who speak English as an Additional Language who are referred to the service.

Further information

EP for International New Arrivals:

The Service has an Educational Psychologist who has dedicated time to provide a responsive approach with school admissions and special education service to support the welcome of children and young people newly arrived in the UK who are likely to have significant special educational needs. The EP helps to identify, assess, and support their special educational needs in cooperation with their families and school staff so that they can be included in our local Leicester schools.