Welcome to the Parent Survey landing page

The Educational Psychology service is seeking feedback from parents. This is to help us identify our strengths, plan our priorities for service delivery and work on areas for improvement. You should have found this page from the QR code or hyperlink on the letter you were sent.

The Survey will be open until the 30th of June 2023. If you miss this deadline and have some feedback for us, please feel free to give that to the psychologist you know or get in touch through the contact details on this site. The Survey will take about about 10 minutes to complete. The data you enter will be kept securely within Falkirk Council’s IT System and in accordance with our privacy notice. We will keep the raw data for approximately 5 years in a secure area. We will be asking you some details about your child’s education, but this should not allow anyone to identify you or your child, including us.

By clicking on the link below you indicate your agreement to participate and consent for us to hold the data. If you change your mind before you have completed it, please simply exit the survey page before clicking or tapping the submit response button.

If you are happy to proceed please click or tap on this hyperlink – SURVEY LINK

If you have any questions about this survey please contact Nick Balchin, Principal Educational Psychologist, through the service email or service phone number 01324 506600.

Thank you in advance.

Education Scotland have just published the Action Enquiry projects for 2018/19 on the Improvement Hub. Falkirk EPS contributed with two papers as part of the Forth Valley and West Lothian Collaborative project:

• Bridging the Gaps in numeracy attainment, 2019, Balchin and McLafferty.
• Psychological factors in promoting numeracy, 2019, Balchin.

The full report is also available on this website.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and University of Manchester have developed a short film to increase knowledge and awareness among parents and practitioners of new children’s rights legislation. The Education (Scotland) Act 2016 (commenced in January 2018) has provided children aged 12-15 years with Additional Support Needs (ASN) with independent rights regarding their education which are almost equivalent to those held by parents and young people, including the right to advice and information and to request particular types of assessment.

This short film incorporates the perspectives of education practitioners, children and young people with ASNs and various other organisations including the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the president of the ASN Tribunal for Scotland.

Please see the link to this short film.

http://bit.ly/CREID-Project-Autonomy-rights-sen-children

With the government’s commitment to increase nursery places for two year olds, more two year olds than ever are being offered the opportunity to take up places in early childcare and education settings. Evidence suggests that that good quality childcare can reduce the poverty related attainment gap and have a significant benefit in terms of a child’s development. In order to ensure that our two year olds are receiving the best quality childcare, we need to think about what two year olds need and how they learn and develop.  The following guide has been developed by Aberdeen City Educational Psychology Service:

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Harrow council have produced this booklet as part of their improving outcomes for two year olds agenda:

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Enabling emotional, indoor and outdoor environment are considered here:

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The East Renfrewshire Educational Psychology Service have a couple of useful videos explaining how educational psychology works.