About EdPsych Connect

Dr Scott I-Patrick

Founder & Developer

DEdPsych CPsychol | HCPC: PYL042340

Dr Scott is a Chartered, HCPC-registered Educational Psychologist whose route into the profession was anything but straight: an art diploma, a decade in operations management, then a First-Class psychology degree and a doctorate at the University of Southampton. His doctoral research asked excluded children what school sanctions had actually done to them, and found they shared one quiet identity — the ones not listened to. That finding has governed everything since. Across more than a decade on the statutory frontline, serving Windsor & Maidenhead (latterly Achieving for Children), Suffolk, Leicestershire, Sandwell, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire and Bath & North East Somerset — latterly as a county Senior Educational Psychologist and in Resolutions and Tribunals work — he saw the same pattern from every seat: a system built to wait for crisis, spending its scarcest experts on paperwork about children rather than work with them, and families left carrying the coordination the system should have carried for them. In 2023 he resigned his Senior role to answer that pattern full-time. EdPsych Connect is the answer — years in the making and still counting, conceived from first principles and built with his own code: notice needs early; make learning something children genuinely enjoy; give every child a voice that cannot be silenced; free the adults for the human work only they can do; and keep the statutory route as a safety net for the few rather than the default for the many. It is his way of reporting back, with evidence, to the system that trained him — on the question it trained him to answer.