Urgent funding need for student psych assessments

The growing number of local primary school students needing a psychological assessment will be the subject of a public meeting in Warkworth on Tuesday, August 26. For the past three years, the Rodney Health Charitable Trust has been assisting Warkworth Primary School to provide such assessments, but the need across the district is now outstripping the trust’s resources. The meeting will focus on other ways to fund the assessments, which cost around $6500 per child. Trustee Chris Murphy says the need is especially acute post-covid, with more children entering school displaying elevated social, ...