Positive report card for Glasgow's Psychological Services

Published: 31 May 2016

Education Scotland in partnership with the council have published a very positive validated self-evaluation (VSE) report for Glasgow's psychological services.

The report, which involved an extensive number of staff from across Education Services, stakeholders and partners has identified a number of key strengths and outlined some priorities for improvement.

Key Strengths Highlighted:

• Very effective partnership working
• The service is well positioned strategically to further develop strong partnership working
• Education psychologists provide expert knowledge and skills and communicate this well e.g. nurture, attachment, Solution Oriented Approaches
• Increased confidence in partners to apply concepts in day to day practice
• Partners report that interventions promoted by GPS are effective in promoting readiness to learn
• Glasgow Psychological Services is very effective in applying the principles of Implementation Science and has disseminated understanding to partners
• Glasgow Psychological Services is very good at impacting on whole systems
• Glasgow Psychological Services has a range of innovative practice from service delivery, interventions and developing the use of technology for data collection
• Glasgow Psychological Services is a progressive service that reflects on its practice and priorities and adjusts accordingly

Read the full report here.