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Alison - we have had the same situation here and our service is a student-only service. Our personnel department have taken ownership of this and paid for an educational psychologist assessment for a member of staff - we did offer to facilitate it for them, ie we allowed them to use one of our student slots, but the report etc went to them and they paid the educational psychologist. Head - Disability Support Office The University of Manchester LG27 John Owens Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel: 0161 275 7512 Fax: 0161 275 57018 Minicom: 0161 275 2794 Text: 07899 663512 / 07899 658790 Email : [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alison James Sent: 21 October 2004 12:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: provision of EP reports for staff Dear all a member of our academic staff wants to have an Educational Psychologist's report to look into her suspected dyslexia and expects the institution to fund this. This is a new situation for us, and I have forwarded her request to our Equality and Diversity Officer as I have assumed this is a Personnel matter. ( My own provision is for funding student support, as is that of my colleague in Student Services). We have offered her back up through screening and staff development however. She believes it is practice in other universities to fund EP reports for staff and I haven't a clue whether this is so, although can believe that larger institutions are probably better placed to offer these kinds of services. Can anyone advise on practice? We are a small specialist arts institution and one university she mentioned was UEL, which is of a very different size to us. (Anyone from UEL out there??!) thank you very much Alison Alison James Learning and Teaching Co-ordinator Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Falkner Road Farnham Surrey GU9 7DS Tel: 01252 892762