Childrenassessed

The WELB Education Psychology Service assesses 1,624 primary school children and 174 post-primary school children in the 2009/10 academic year, the Education Minister Caitríona Ruane advised in response to an Assembly Question.

A further 348 children were referred to the service but had either not yet been seen or whose assessment process had not yet been completed.

The role of the service is “to provide an effective, efficient, equitable, high quality service to children and young people in the age range 0 - 19 in the context of learning, emotional and behavioural difficulties and where possible to prevent these difficulties arising.”