Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what formulation is used when setting the value of the living grant for trainee educational psychologists; whether inflation is taken into account, and whether this has been reviewed since the grant was introduced in 2018.
In partnership, the Scottish Government and COSLA provide £2m investment per year to deliver the training programme for educational psychologists.
The formulation for this investment takes into account the number of students, the tuition fees paid for each student, individual membership to the British Psychological Society and an allocation to help students with living costs associated with studying.
The living costs grant is not income assessed, is not indexed to inflation and does not need to be paid back.
The grant has been reviewed since 2018 and the amount was agreed with the National Scottish Steering Group for Educational Psychologists.