How it works
How Clear Picture works
What Clear Picture is
Clear Picture (£245, paid once) is a structured, individualised, educational psychology-informed exploration for parents who are worried their child may be at risk of EBSA (emotionally based school avoidance or non-attendance), or is already finding school hard. Carefully designed questions help you think the situation through. An AI-assisted system brings your answers together into the report's structured sections, and a registered educational psychologist reviews and edits the material and adds their own professional comment and signature. It is a light-touch service, not a full assessment: the educational psychologist doesn't meet your child or speak to school.
It is usually ready between 1 and 3 working days. It is a light-touch educational psychology perspective, not an assessment or diagnosis.
Completing the structured questionnaire
You answer carefully designed questions an educational psychologist may ask about school, home and what helps. They take about 25–35 minutes, and you can save and come back at any time. Your answers provide the foundation for an individualised report.
How your Clear Picture report is prepared
Your answers provide the foundation for an individualised educational psychology report.
Our secure Ed Psych Now AI-assisted system brings together the relevant information into the report's structured sections, following the framework of the questionnaire. A registered educational psychologist then works with this material, reviewing and editing the content, considering the information as a whole and adding their own professional comment and interpretation.
The result is a report shaped by your child's individual circumstances, with educational psychology expertise at its heart.
What the report contains
- A personal response from the Educational Psychologist at the top of the report, in their own words
- Written using your child's first name, under headings marked 'as reported by you', with your child's views and what school and others have noticed
- Where things are now: how long it has been going on and the attendance trend
- When it's harder and when it's easier, set out as times, places, people and what might have been happening
- What pushes your child away from school and pulls them towards home, and what draws them back
- What may be keeping it going, explained in plain words
- An emerging picture of what might be contributing to your child's difficulties, considered through the push-and-pull EBSA framework
- Suggestions of a few things to explore next, based on where you are now
- Questions you could ask the SENCo or class teacher, to help you structure a meeting with school
- A PDF report to keep or take into school to help structure conversations
- A document you can share with school or anyone else, if you want to.
How Clear Picture may help
Clear Picture is not simply a questionnaire or a collection of generic advice. Its value lies in bringing together your observations through a carefully structured educational psychology-informed framework.
- Understand what might be happening — Bring together what you've noticed about your child's experience of school, home and everyday life.
- Explore possible explanations — Consider the factors that may be making school harder, what helps and what might be keeping difficulties going.
- Feel better prepared to talk to school — Take a structured report and relevant questions into conversations with teachers and the SENCo.
It is for children aged 4 to 16, about school attendance and not wanting to go to school. It does not promise to secure school support, change a school's decisions, or produce a particular outcome.
Price and next step
Clear Picture is £245, paid once.
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