Parents

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

When your child is referred to the psychological service, North Ayrshire Council collects information about you and your child or young person in order to provide you with an Educational Psychology Service (EPS). The Council is legally required to provide this service under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. We will keep this information for 5 years after your child leaves school. For children and young people who are currently or have been Looked After and Accommodated by a local authority, files will be kept indefinitely in line with the requirements and recommendations of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI).

Find out more here by downloading this GDPR document (Word); also available in Russian (Word) and Ukrainian (Word).

You can download this pdf leaflet about our service and what to expect if an educational psychologist becomes involved.

You can watch the short video below about psychology and what an educational psychologist does.

You can also listen to the audio clip below to find out more about what psychology is and what an educational psychologist does.

Scottish Educational Psychology Services organise service delivery to schools, families and other partners across five key roles in accordance with the “Review of Educational Psychology Services in Scotland” Report 2002.

These five roles are

You can find out more about our current model of service delivery here (Word 51kb).

The Educational Psychology Service alongside Health and Wellbeing colleagues have developed resources to support children and families affected by anxiety related nonattendance.

You can download leaflets below:

for children and young people (5Mb, pdf)
for parents (8.2Mb, pdf)

Psychologists may also have involvement in policy development and implementation.

Examples of educational psychologists’ involvement in policy development and implementation:

- Assisting educational establishments in the development of their policies
- Assisting the local authority in the development of their policies and systems, particularly those in relation to Additional Support for Learning, for example: Dyslexia Policy; Inclusion: Additional Support for Learning Procedures
- The Authority Anti-Bullying policy is available to download here (pdf 4.3Mb)
- The psychological service has developed information for parents around Change and Loss (pdf)
- Promoting Positive Relationships Policy (Word, 5.4Mb)

Contributing to Scottish Government initiatives and legislation, for example:

Supporting Children’s Learning
ASD Strategy
ASfL Code of Practice
Disability Equality Duty