Association of Educational Psychologists

{{Short description|British trade union}}

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|name = Association of Educational Psychologists

|location_country= United Kingdom

|affiliation = TUC, GFTU

|members = 3,843 (2022){{cite web|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1165586/706T_2022.pdf |access-date=18 July 2023|website=publishing.service.gov.uk|title=Annual Return for a Trade Union}}

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|founded = 1962

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|headquarters = Durham

|key_people = Cath Lowther, General Secretary

|website = [http://www.aep.org.uk/ aep.org.uk]

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The Association of Educational Psychologists is a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The British Psychological Society represented educational psychologists until 1962, when it received chartered status. Those members who wished to remain part of a body able to negotiate on their behalf formed the "Association of Educational Psychologists", although it delegated the actual negotiations to the National Union of Teachers and the Ulster Teachers Union.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, p.410

In 1997, the organisation took over negotiation duties from the National Union of Teachers, and in 1999, it affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. It only began accepting members in Scotland in 2003. Its president in 2006 was Mary Jenkin.{{cite news |author1=Julia Stuart |title=Yolande Beckles: Little Miss Know-all |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article356603.ece |access-date=5 April 2024 |work=The Independent |date=9 April 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817102841/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article356603.ece |archive-date=17 August 2007 |language=en |quote="The programme was dangerous and Beckles's behaviour completely inappropriate," Mary Jenkin, president of the Association of Educational Psychologists, told one newspaper}}