Quality Educational Psychology Advice Tool

Introducing the UK’s first Educational Psychology quality assurance tool (QEPA) developed by Educational Psychologists for Educational Psychologists.

A partnership approach to quality assuring the statutory Educational Psychology advice that informs children's EHC assessments.

"There is a sense of focus on good practice & strengths, rather than trying to catch errors within the report."

"Made quality assurance straightforward, enabling EPs to focus on specifics."

Why should you adopt our tool?

Our Educational Psychology Advice QA Tool (QEPA) was developed through a pilot programme
to ensure that EP services find it valuable.

Ensuring a robust and insightful quality assurance framework is in place across your service is not an easy task; however, it’s integral to high performance and hugely important to children and young people.

Our QEPA tool does all this, and more.  We believe it really is a game-changer for the Ed Psych community.

As a standard, here’s what your team can expect to gain from adopting our QEPA tool:

Developed in collaboration

You’ll be using a tool designed collaboratively with your peers through our local authority pilot programme, ensuring it’s fit for purpose.

Easy to use

Whilst using the tool, you’ll follow a simple-to-use, step-by-step process, with built-in checklist criteria and examples of ‘what good looks like’.

Seamless implementation

A simple, standardised QA framework that can be easily implemented and accessed remotely.

Benchmarking

Your Educational Psychology service can benchmark against the regional and national standards of other EP services using the tool.

Touch of a button reporting

Our reporting feature makes it far easier to analyse data to inform EP service development plans and improvement cycles.

User Experiences

Collate and analyse user experiences from C/YP and parents/carers following engagement with an EP through the tools user-friendly feedback loop.

Frequently Asked Questions

What impact are the Invision360 tools making?

There is an abundance of quantitative data within our tools that LAs are utilising to demonstrate higher quality performance as a result of using Invision360 audit tools.

Invision360 has been cited and referenced in numerous Ofsted and CQC inspection outcome reports due to the positive progress local areas are making and the considerable improvements they have observed following implementation.

In June 2023, Invision360, in partnership with Stockton Borough Council, won the prestigious MJ award for digital transformation; this was a direct result of the positive impact demonstrated following the implementation of the Invision360 tools.

How do I purchase an Invision360 tool, and what are the options?

For information on how you can purchase any Invision360 tools, please get in contact with our Head of Partnerships, Mark Andrews, via telephone at 07825225260 or email on m.andrews@invision360.com

Alternatively, Invision360 is listed as a Crown Commercial Services supplier within the UK Government G-Cloud Government framework.

The Invision360 tools are purchasable on an annual subscription, but we are also happy to offer extended agreements of 2 or 3 years.

What training is provided by Invision360?

We provide all the training you will need as an authority remotely via Microsoft Teams.

Our training times are flexible to meet when best suits your team.

If staff are unable to attend any training, we will provide a recording of the meeting and additional training to new team members who may join midway through your contract term.

We regularly review our support policies and procedures to ensure that our customers have access to the best support possible.

Our help centre is online 24/7 and has plenty of articles to help you out. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, our support staff are always on hand via email. at support@invision360.com

Importantly, we’re always happy to help.

Is any personal data stored on the tools?

Personal data is defined by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) as information relating to natural persons who can be identified or who are identifiable, directly from the information in question; or who can be indirectly identified from that information in combination with other information. Under the ICO definition, we store two forms of personal data:

• The name of a user as it is entered onto the platform

• The email address of a user as it is entered onto the platform.

What security exists around the storage and use of data on the platform?

We apply and regularly review appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard your data. This includes ensuring data is kept in a highly available state by replicating it across geographically distinct, physical data centres based in the UK. This ensures that in the unlikely event of one of our data centres suffering an outage, our systems can ‘flip’ to a different data centre. When we test these failover scenarios it takes - on average - 30 seconds to complete.

Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Our internal access policies set out who at Invision360 can access your data, and we’ll only do so as part of a support request or maintenance. We apply principles of least access across all levels.

Do Invision360 tools align with existing case management software that we are using?

Yes, our quality assurance tools align with case management systems.

What does QEPA stand for?

Quality Educational Psychology Advice

What is QEPA aiming to achieve?

In a nutshell, supporting Educational Psychology Services to quality assure and audit the statutory advice being submitted by their service.

Ensuring a robust and insightful quality assurance frame work is in place across an EP service is not an easy task; however, is integral to any high performing EP team / service.

Invision360 QEPA tool provides a framework for all EP Services across the UK to ensure high quality statutory advice is consistently being produced.

What challenges are the EP profession / sector experiencing (what can the Invision360 QEPA tool support)?

The new EPS workforce insights published in June 2023 highlights some key challenges the EP profession is facing.

88% of LA Principal EPs reported that they were currently experiencing difficulties recruiting and there is not enough capacity to meet demand for their services.

As the number of EHCPs continues to rise nationally, more and more EP Services are having to utilise external capacity /resource to support the statutory demands.

This is why, with a number of LA partners, Invision360 has developed a new EP statutory advice digital audit tool, to help EP Services to embed an efficient and robust internal QA process.

Why would an EP Service or Local Authority want to use QEPA?

Across the country EP Services are increasingly experiencing a hybrid workforce, with a combination of permanent EPs, Agency EPs, Trainee EPs and Assistant EP producing or contributing to statutory advice; having one tool that can promote consistency and quality, is key in the current landscape.

The Invision360 QEPA tool provides a platform that is efficient, easy to implement, based on standardised criteria and supports greater consistency and quality with regards to Educational Psychology statutory advice.

What are the key features of the QEPA tool?

Developed by EPs for EPs.

A simple, standardised QA framework that can be easily implemented and accessed remotely.

A step-by-step process, with built-in checklist criteria and examples of ‘what good looks like’.

Benchmark EP services against regional and national standards.

Our ‘touch of the button’ reporting feature makes it far easier to analyse data to inform EP service development plans and improvement cycles.

An increase in consistent auditing across EP services through the built-in moderation feature.

Collate and analyse user experiences from C/YP and parents/carers following engagement with an EP through the tools user-friendly feedback loop.

Who designed /developed QEPA?

This is a tool developed by Educational Psychologists for Educational Psychologists.

Our CEO and  Founder, Philip Stock, has experience in the EP sector.

He was a Principal EP  for a number of London Boroughs (Newham, Hillingdon, Barnet) and has also reviewed EP Services for LAs.

Working with  four EP Services, the QEPA tool was developed, piloted and refined.

This  group accessed existing QA criteria, drawn from a large number of existing  manual QA frameworks that EP Services across the country are using.

Ready to find out more?

Hit the button below to book a free demo over Microsoft Teams with our Head of Partnerships, Mark Andrews.