Packages and Costs

“Our success cannot be measured within the individual services we provide. Instead, our success grows from within the RELATIONSHIPS we form.”

Ongoing Support Packages

Due to our approach, many of the schools we work with want to secure our services and, therefore, we offer ongoing annual packages of support. This works great for us too, as we can ensure our support is well-organised to meet our schools' needs (often sooner), and enables more effective and creative applications of psychology.

For our annual packages, we work flexibly to identify the level of need and type of support required (either individually or collectively for children or young people, staff training, consultancy or project work). Packages are based on the total number of days of support required, and range from a minimum annual package of 3 days support (a day a term) to a maximum annual package of 39 days support (a day a week). Typically, we attend schools for full days and occasionally for half days, where this is needed. We have found that a full day ensures our schools have the maximum amount of time from us and enables utilising lunch time as, like many of us working in education, we don't mind a working lunch!

Our costings are set against an ethical pricing policy, that considers the typical daily rates to schools found in local authority educational psychology traded services, or other independent educational psychology services. At present, they are set at £580 plus VAT per day, or £315 plus VAT per half day. Costings are also more favourable for schools as a package of planned support.

Individual pricing for completed work will, however, vary depending upon the duration and complexity of support required and, therefore, needs to be agreed on an individual basis, and will be discussed as we plan work together.

One-off Involvement

Ideally, our work is planned within an annual package of support. However, we recognise that there are times when schools cannot commit to ongoing support and need one-off involvement. Typically, this can be for individual children or young people, where educational psychology involvement is required to understand complex needs and aid 'quick' problem-solving solutions. We, therefore, welcome enquiries for one-off involvement, and we will try and support schools as quickly and effectively as we can.

Our costings for one-off involvement do vary from our annual support packages, because, from experience, they do equate to more time and complexity of support to ensure our work is effective. At present, the costings are set at £600 plus VAT per day, and £325 plus VAT per half day.

As per packaged based support, we typically attend schools for full days, occasionally for half days, and individual pricing for completed support is discussed and agreed together with school staff. In such discussions, where support is considered to take longer than a day or two, often schools seek the benefit of requesting a three-day annual support package, where the decrease in daily chargeable rate will be applied.

Staff Training

Staff training is delivered as a twilight, half day or full day session. In all cases, an initial consultation will be completed to explore the purpose and content of the training. A bespoke tailored programme, or a pre-existing training programme will be agreed. After training delivery, a follow up consultation will be made to aid the application of theory into practice.

The following prices are inclusive of the completion of all aspects of staff training delivery from the initial consultation, training preparation, delivery and follow-up.

Bespoke tailored programmes are costed at the prices above, plus additional planning and preparation time charged at £96.67 per hour.

Consultancy and Project Work

Our consultancy and project work is offered as a bespoke service, created through collaboration with school staff, to develop a tailored package of support. Each package will be formulated into a number of days work, and charged at £550 plus VAT per day. Any training completed as part of consultancy advice or project work will be charged at the training rate or formulated, separately, as part of the bespoke tailored package.