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Educational Psychology: Career Development

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with local authorities to help assistant educational psychologists progress their careers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with local authorities to help assistant educational psychologists progress their careers.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Educational psychologists play a critical role in the support available to children and young people. The department is investing over £21 million to train 400 more educational psychologists from September 2024. This is in addition to the £10 million curr...

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