Steve McCabe – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to collect information on waiting times for students referred to educational psychologists.

Mr Edward Timpson

The Department for Education has no plans to collect information on waiting times for students referred to educational psychologists. Recruitment and deployment of educational psychologists is a matter for local authorities taking into account their statutory duties. In 2013 the Department invested an additional £6.194 million, to increase the number of training places by 10% (from 120 to 132 intakes in 2014 and 2015).