This document has been produced in consultation and partnership with the Scottish Division of Educational Psychology and the Association of Scottish Principal Educational Psychologists.
The development of the document was undertaken through consultation with a professional reference group which included staff from Aberdeenshire, East Lothian, Fife, South Lanarkshire, and West Lothian Councils. Production of the document was assisted further by feedback from a number of services, the course directors of the professional training courses for educational psychology at the Universities of Dundee, and Strathclyde and through consultation with the profession at the annual national conference for educational psychology.
Thanks are due to colleagues who gave their time in reading and responding to successive drafts of this document.
The compilation of material for this document involved the identification of good practice within existing systems of monitoring and evaluation. In this context, the work of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), Charter Mark, Investors in People (liP) and the Review of Provision of Educational Psychology Services in Scotland, published in 2002, is acknowledged.