Educational psychology services and employment - Find a freedom of information request

1. What is the structural FTE Educational Psychologists in the following grades:

a. Assistant Educational Psychologists employed on the Soulbury Assistant Educational Psychologise Scale

b. Educational Psychologists on Soulbury Scale A

c. Educational Psychologists employed on Soulbury Scale B

d. Educational and other Psychologists employed on any other scale

2. How many vacant posts are there in the Educational Psychology Service?

3. How many posts are filled on an interim or temporary basis by employees?

4. What is the average salary (including on-costs) of employed Educational Psychologists

5. What is the average daily cost of employed Educational Psychologists

6. What is the average daily cost of the following categories of Educational Psychologists for the years 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023

a. Temporary Educational Psychologists

b. Locum Educational Psychologists

c. Agency Educational Psychologists

7. What is the total spend on locum/ agency / temporary Educational Psychologists for the year 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

8. What is the current and projected spend on Locum Educational Psychologists for the current financial year?

1. Lincolnshire County Council do not directly employ Educational Psychologists.

2. Lincolnshire County Council do not directly employ Educational Psychologists.

3. Lincolnshire County Council do not directly employ Educational Psychologists.

4. Lincolnshire County Council do not directly employ Educational Psychologists.

5. Lincolnshire County Council do not directly employ Educational Psychologists.

6.

• 2020/2021 - £583.54
• 2021/2022 - £550.22
• 2022/2023 - £522.19

7.

• 2020/2021 - £294,550.34
• 2021/2022 - £171,941.03
• 2022/2023 - £190,987.58

8. £462,957.00 current spend, projected spend, £925,914.

Lincolnshire County Council has taken a decision not to directly employ educational psychologists due to the significant difficulties in recruiting and retaining this staff group.