Education welfare services - Introduction

The Tower Hamlets Education welfare services assists schools and other organisations in the community in the following areas:

• Education of children and young people in public care
• School supervised medication
• Educational psychology

Education of children and young people in public care

Tower Hamlets Education and Social services departments support, monitor and help to improve the educational achievements of children and young people in public care.

For more information, please refer to the section on Education of children and young people in public care.

School supervised medication

Schools are expected to do as much as possible to be inclusive and to remove any obstacles to children being educated, including for children who need medication. The Tower Hamlets health through education drug prevention team works to provide support to schools to help to alleviate many of the problems associated with supervising and administering medicines at school.

For more information, please refer to the section on School supervised medication.

Educational psychology

The council works with parents, teachers and schools to provide an educational psychology service to children and young people in Tower Hamlets. The council’s team of educational psychologists aims to meet the needs of young people or children experiencing difficulties to make sure that they are as successful at school as possible.

For more information, please refer to the section on Educational psychology.

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