| Description | Minutes of the British Psychological Society Committee on the Implications of the Summerfield Report, cut and pasted typed text.
Details contained inside are mostly concerning; the training of psychologists for the Education service [Summerfield report], draft syllabus for a British Psychological Society (BPS) Diploma in Educational and Child Psychology, interim reports, draft notes for tutors, 5th and 6th meetings of the committee are attached towards the end of the book, 1969-1971. |
| AdminHistory | The Summerfield Committee was appointed in February 1965 by the Secretary of State for Education
'to consider the field of work of educational psychologists employed by local education authorities and the qualifications and training necessary; to estimate the number of psychologists required; and to make recommendations.'
It's members were Arthur Summerfield , Jack H. Kahn, Percy Lord, Margaret Procter
Grace Rawlings, C. W. W. Read, C. J. Revington, Olive C. Sampson, R. V. Saunders
Elfed Thomas, and Phillip Williams
It reported in 1968 'Psychologists in Education Services' and this was responded to by the British Psychological Society 'Memorandum on The report of the Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services (The Seebohm Report) and the Report of the Working party on Psychologists in Education Services (The Summerfield Report) November 1968 [See BPS/001/16/02 BPS Scrapbook] and then the Society formed a committee to respond to the Summerfield Reports recommendations.
The business of the Committee was to prepare for a meeting with the Department of Education and Science to discuss the financing of postgraduate training, the setting up of a Training Council and the effects of changes in local government structure and responsibilities on the recommendations of the report.
The Committee comprised Maurice Chazan, J Lumsden, T Moore, P F Portwood, Grace Rawlings (chair), A M Roe (Hon Sec), George Seth and H J Wright. |