Self Employed EPs

The AEP supports members who are either already self-employed or who are considering changing their employment status in the future. Rather than set out information in detail, the below paper aims to direct members to useful sources of information by reference to websites that can be easily accessed.

For most educational psychologists, “self-employment” usually refers to non-salaried work.

There are many ways in which this can be done, for example:

• fully self-employed, providing services directly to a range of clients
• part-time status as employee and some self-employment
• local authority “associate”
• via an agency
• membership of a cooperative
• social enterprise (which does not necessarily imply self-employment)
• any combination of the above.