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Number of new patients taken on for treatment during each
month:
January 5; February 6; March 5; April 7; May 2; June 9;
July 8; August 3; September 2; October 11; November 4;
December 5.
Number of Psychiatric Interviews:
Quarter to 31st March, 1969 146
Quarter to 30th June, 1969 125
Quarter to 30th September, 1969 127
Quarter to 31st December, 1969 160
Number of Social Worker's Interviews:
Quarter to 31st March, 1969 151
Quarter to 30th June, 1969 134
Quarter to 30th September, 1969 155
Quarter to 31st December, 1969 212
Number of Home Visits:
Psychiatric Social Worker 81
Educational Psychologists —
Other Staff
The Social Worker made 18 visits to different outside agencies.
Number of School Visits:
Psychiatric Social Worker 6
Educational Psychologists 6
School Psychological Service
I am grateful to Mr. D. R. Barraclough, Chief Education
Officer, for the following report on the School Psychological
Services:—
This Service, which is part of the Education Department, has
been hampered in the past by unsuitable buildings and by the fact
that its staff was too small for the demands made upon it. In 1969,
however, the School Psychological Service moved to St. Paul's
Wood Hill where, for the first time, it had a place of its own and
adequate accommodation. Full-time clerical assistance was allocated
to the Service and, in the financial year 1970-71, the number
of educational psychologists is to be increased from two to three.
Children are referred to the educational psychologists by
schools, by hospitals, by Child Guidance Clinics, by the Principal
School Medical Officer and, of course, by the Chief Education
Officer. Problems of learning and under-functioning are by far the
main causes of referral by schools. The behaviour problems are
more commonly referred through the clinics. The intelligence
quotient range is similar for children from all sources with the
boys perhaps presenting a wider range of levels than the girls.