Reference
E/EP2/1
Title
General file including information as follows:
Date free text
1974 - 1988
Production date
From: 1974 To: 1988
Scope and Content
- introduction of a new form for referrals to service and destination of future referrals [1974];
- proposed method for providing a report on children recommended for residential schooling [1974];
- Education Psychological Service (EPS) draft progress report [1975];
- inability to convert the posts three trainees who were about to qualify from assistant scale into main scale posts [1975];
- visit by Bedfordshire Education Psychological Service staff to a unit in Huntingdon for maladjusted secondary school children [1976];
- response to Suffolk Education Psychological Service query regarding Bedfordshire practice on letting parents see Education Psychological Service reports to Chief Education Officer (CEO) on their children [1976];
- draft circulars on Education Psychological Service [1976];
- policy on when a headteacher should bypass referral procedure and request urgent action via CEO [1976];
- strain on Education Psychological Service following loss of two full-time staff [1976];
- report summarising structure etc. of Education Psychological Service [1977];
- report on “panel” established as an experiment to monitor out-county placements [1977];
- notes regarding a report on rôle of psychologists in the National Health Service [1977];
- notes on pressures on and challenges of Education Psychological Service [1977];
- relationship between Education Psychological Service and Education Welfare Officers [1977];
- possible deployment of two new psychologist posts [1978];
- detailed outline of work undertaken by members of EPS [1978];
- use of Liverpool Road Clinic, Luton, by Education Psychological Service staff [1978];
- difficulty in obtaining administrative, secretarial and clerical support for Southern Area Education Psychological Service and circumventing of management structure by individual psychologist in raising the matter direct with CEO [1978];
- draft report on recent developments in and further needs of Education Psychological Service [1978];
- Education Psychological Service memorandum on why Bedfordshire was seen as an unattractive posting to potential recruits [1979];
- attack on psychologist by a twelve year old child undergoing a temper tantrum and debate as to whether a visit by a psychologist to this child was relevant [1979];
- draft letter introducing a system whereby no child over the age of thirteen could be referred to Education Psychological Service (due to lack of staff resources), with complaints about the decision by headteachers [see also below, 1982], [1979];
- brief report outlining staffing situation of, work undertaken by, referral rates to and pressures arising and the way ahead for Education Psychological Service [1979];
- report on in-service and other professional development needs of Education Psychological Service [1980];
- report on Education Psychological Service [1980];
- notes on deployment of staff, referral lists and travelling by staff of Southern Area Education Psychological Service [1980];
- request from Area Health Authority for a regular commitment by Education Psychological Service to multidisciplinary assessment of pre-school children at Liverpool Road Health Centre, Luton [1980];
- Education Psychological Service concern at withdrawal of Education Welfare Service and social work provision to special schools [1980];
- proposed destruction of all Education Psychological Service case files when the child reached 18 [refused] [1980];
- provision of two Reading Centres for children experiencing difficulty in acquiring literacy skills [1981];
- lifting of restriction imposed in 1979 regarding referrals of children aged 13 and over to Education Psychological Service [1982];
- report of Bedford Child & Family Psychiatric Service for 1980, including proposals for future development [1981];
- dissatisfaction of headteacher of Arnold Middle School at Education Psychological Service proposal to transfer his school, along with others in Harlington Upper School catchment area to Southern Area Education Psychological Service [1982];
- outline of Education Psychologist’s work with Assessment Team at Liverpool Road Health Clinic, Luton, with future work planned [1983];
- changes in Northern Area Education Psychological Service districts so as to match the districts of Special Education Support Service [1985];
- debate regarding allocation of teaching and non-teaching assistance to particular pupils [1985];
- information sheet compiled by Special Education Support Team (Teachers & Educational Psychologists) based in The Grange Catchment Area [1984];
- report on improved structure and organisation of Education Psychological Service [1985];
- detailed correspondence regarding an individual Education Psychologist’s concern at changes in reviews on children with Special Needs in ordinary schools, principally that she saw herself having to make recommendations according to Local Education Authority rather than child needs [1987];
- concerns of Houghton Regis Headteachers’ Association at lack of Education Psychological Service cover for their area [1988];
- detailed report to Schools & Special Services Sub-Committee by CEO and County Treasurer on Education Psychological Service for children aged under 5 years in South Bedfordshire [1988];
- draft report on need for two additional Education Psychological Service posts to serve children aged 0-5 years [1988].
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