Educational Psychology Service EPS Inspections
The commitment to inspection of EPS is based on legislative and national requirements-
1. In the Review of Provision of Educational Psychology in Scotland published by the Scottish Executive in February 2002, thirty-one recommendations were proposed to improve the quality of services delivered to stakeholders by local authority psychological services. The following recommendation focuses on quality assurance and specifically involved HMIE-
Recommendation 20 – Educational psychology services should have a more formal framework of evaluation, which incorporates self-evaluation, peer evaluation and inspection by HM Inspectorate of Education, and which, in particular, takes full account of the views of children, young people and parents.
2. The Statutory remit across social work and the education authority (age range 0-19 years of age), as amended by the ASL Act (2004)-
1.18 Section 4 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 states that it is the duty of education authorities to provide a regional or islands authority psychological service.
The functions of that service shall include:
‘(a) the study of children with additional support needs;
(b) the giving of advice to parents and teachers as to appropriate methods of education for such children;
(c) in suitable cases the provision for the additional support needs of such children;
(d) the giving of advice to a local authority within the meaning of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 regarding the assessment of the needs of any child for the purposes on any of the provisions of that or any other enactment.’
3. The national extension of Post School Psychological Services announced by Fiona Hyslop on 19th February 2008. In consultation with colleagues in Lifelong Learning this element of work has now been incorporated in to the inspection of EPS.
HMIE is gathering, for the first time, reliable intelligence about the quality of educational psychology delivered by services across Scotland. Through close partnership with the profession, HMIE are building service capacity and supporting the development of robust self-evaluation.
Documents
What do you need to do before an inspection?
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