Educational Psychology Service

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Background
The Educational Psychology Service aims to:

• help create conditions which enable children and young people to achieve their full potential, particularly where they are experiencing problems
• work together with parents, teachers, and other partners to prevent or overcome such problems
• promote understanding and advancement of learning and teaching strategies through engaging in authority-wide strategies and innovations
• conduct research which meets rigorous quality and ethical standards

Every school has a visiting named psychologist, and advice is also provided to Children’s Hearing, education management and partnership agencies. Educational psychologists in the service participate in a structured professional development programme.

Each educational psychologist has commitments in all of the following areas:

• generic: supporting individual children, families and teachers, through collaborative involvement in schools
• specialist: supporting individual children, families and teachers, through collaborative involvement in special schools and special units.
• research: supporting schools and the authority, through involvement in research and in the development of learning and teaching initiatives.
• continuous professional development: ensuring they keep up to date with latest professional developments.

• HMIe reports
• standards and quality reports
• information leaflets
• Information Pack 2008-2009
• Recent Research Reports 2005 - 2006
• Recent Research Reports 2007 - 2008

For more information please contact us

• email: schools.els@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0141 840 3777
• write or visit:
  Renfrewshire Educational Psychology Service,
  Abbey House
  8 Seedhill Road
  Paisley
  PA1 1NQ

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