E/SE3/1/1

File regarding meetings of Assistant Education Officer (Schools & Special Education) with Education Psychologists, including information as follows:

1975 - 1982

From: 1975 To: 1982

- request by remedial teachers in South Bedfordshire for clarification of administrative problems [1975]; - notes of meeting of Local Education Authority staff to discuss: new forms to be used in assessing children needing Special Education; administration of Remedial Units; appointment of two remedial teachers in Houghton Regis area; procedures for reports from Education Psychologists [1975]; - responses from schools to a questionnaire about units attached to them, asking for: the official designation; whether the unit served the school or a number of schools; names and details of children in the unit; brief history of the unit; name and grade of unit teacher; and other relevant information. Includes answers, varying in length , from the following schools: Halyard High School, Luton; Downside Junior School, Luton; Raleigh Lower School, Bedford; Surrey Street Primary School, Luton; Leighton Buzzard County Primary Infant School (Beaudesert); Norton Road Junior & Infant School, Luton; Ashcroft High School, Luton; Maidenhall Junior Mixed School, Luton; Stopsley Junior School, Luton; Mary Bassett County Primary School, Leighton Buzzard; Ramsey County Primary School, Barton-le-Clay; Kingsbrook School, Bedford; Stockwood High School, Luton [1975]; - notes of meetings to discuss remedial and special units in schools [1975]; - points for discussion regarding Education Psychological Service and Child & Family Psychiatric Service and recommendations for maladjusted schools/units [1975]; - notes of meetings with Education Psychologists [1975-1982]; - notes on provision of special classes for handicapped children including brief information regarding the schools noted above as well as Pearcey Road Lower School, Bedford; St.Swithun’s Lower School, Sandy; and Shackleton Lower School, Bedford [1975]; - list of topics for meetings - areas in need of review, policy development and plans for action [1976]; - reminder to psychologists to attach reports to forms recommending children for schools for maladjusted [1976]; - points for discussion regarding Education Psychologists and out-county school placements [1976]; - some ideas for discussion regarding formation of a “panel” to monitor out-county placements [1976].

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EDUCATION, special education, health administration, education services, education psychologists, Education Officer, business correspondence, teachers, South Bedfordshire, Local Education Authority, education staff, remedial units, employment, HOUGHTON REGIS, surveys, Halyard High School, Downside Junior School, Surrey Street Primary School, Norton Road Primary School, Ashcroft High School, Maidenhall Junior School, Stopsley Junior School, Stockwood High School, LUTON, Raleigh Lower School, Kingsbrook School, BEDFORD, Leighton Buzzard County Primary Infants School, Beaudesert Infants School, Mary Bassett County Primary Junior School, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, Ramsey County Primary Infants School, BARTON-LE-CLAY, psychiatry, disability, Pearcey Road County Primary School, Shackleton Lower School, St.Swithun's Voluntary Controlled Lower School, SANDY, out county schools