The Evaluation of Educational Psychology Services in the Light of Outcomes for Children

In 2004 the government published the green paper "Every Child Matters: Change for Children". This paper set a new agenda for all public and voluntary services working for and with children. The resulting Children Act (2006) instigated a tumultuous change in the way local authorities provide services for children. Most of the implications of those
changes are still being worked out at local and practitioner levels. Significant for educational psychologists among those changes were the moves to integrated services and the requirement that services be judged not by what they do but against the published five desired outcomes for children and young people (GYP).