EDUCATION WELFARE SERVICE

The Education Welfare Service operates within a legal framework, assisting the SEELB in discharging its legal obligations. The SEELB seeks to ensure that every child and young person receives maximum benefit from the educational opportunities on offer.

It provides a specialist service within an educational setting using social work skills, expertise and techniques together with detailed knowledge of the education system.

Education Welfare Officers are employed by the Board to provide a service to schools, children and families and to establish effective links between them and other relevant agencies. When cases are referred to the service, officers assess the problem and plan suitable intervention, which on assessment may require co-working with other professionals, either within, or external to the education service.