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is not always possible to admit those children most in need of this
type of environment because of travelling difficulties.
With regard to Schools for Maladjusted, the number of children
waiting for placement is still considerable, but the Homestead School
will shortly be able to take more, and we hope that this situation will
soon be remedied.
I feel that, on the whole, 1962 has been a satisfactory year.
School Psychological Service
Miss I. A. Poulton, Educational Psychologist has submitted the
following report:—
Several special activities have been included in the educational
psychologist's work for 1962 as well as the usual individual interviews
with children and parents in schools.
During the first six months all children attending schools for
educationally sub-normal pupils were interviewed for review of intellectual
progress and also a number of children on the waiting list.
This meant that all children entering Havering Grange School when
it opened had been recently tested with the 1937 version of the
Terman and Merrill Test and the headmaster and staff of the school
provided with up-to-date reports. In most cases a parent had also
been seen. The educational psychologist attended meetings with the
School Medical Officer, school staff and parents before the school
opened and has visited regularly since.
Regular visits to the Parklands Nursery have continued, the
educational psychologist sometimes accompanying the consultant
psychiatrist for his treatment visits and sometimes calling to discuss
particular problems with the staff.
From January until the end of April the educational psychologist
continued her temporary assistance to the Basildon Clinic which
had begun in the autumn of 1961, and in 1962 she attended for a
total of eleven days, seeing 37 new clinic cases for preliminary interviews,
attending case conferences and making a few school visits in
connection with clinic patients.
From September onwards more than the usual number of handicapped
school leavers had to be referred by the Youth Employment
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