Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department is offering support to trainee educational psychologists with the rising cost of living including (a) access to educational bursaries and loans and (b) assistance with travel costs.

The department does not currently plan to make an assessment on increasing pay for educational psychologists.

The department currently funds the tuition fees for the three-year training course for educational psychologists, as well as a bursary for the first year of the course, which is passed on to trainees. Trainees also receive a bursary for the second and third years of study, which is funded by the local authorities where trainees undertake their placements. The bursary can be used to assist with living and travel costs.

After graduation, specific employment terms, including pay, are governed by the education psychologist’s contract of employment with their employer.