Documents by Board of Trustees will have been approved by the Board of Trustees. This is the Society's primary governing body, they retain oversight of strategic direction and delegate the development to the relevant strategic boards. Documents may have been developed by people or groups outside the Board, with specific expertise, but will have received final approval by the Board.
BPS members
Documents produced by BPS members are written by members with expertise in an area but not associated to a particular member network. The members drive the work. These documents will have followed a Society governance process appropriate to the topic and document type.
BPS Team
Documents produced by teams in the BPS have been written by members of BPS staff with particular expertise, to a specific remit. They may have had input from or collaboration with members dependent on the nature of the document. They will have been signed off by a member of the Senior Management Team.
Documents by the Ethics Committee have been drafted by the committee which reports into the Research Board. They will have been through the governance process which involves approval by the Ethics Committee and then by the Research Board and Research Board chair.
Documents by member networks have originated from the particular member network and the work has been led by them. There may have been collaboration with other member networks and this will be noted within the document. Where the documents are on the Member Network mini-site they will have only gone through the governance of that member network. Where they appear on the main BPS website and have BPS in front of the document type, they will have been through a Society governance process dependent on the document type.
Documents by Practice Board have been drafted by an advisory group or task and finish group commissioned by the Board, which reports into the Board. They will have been through the Practice Board governance process, which includes initial agreement by the Board, Society wide consultation, final edit and audit of how consultation comments have been attended to. Final drafts are usually signed off by the Chair of the Board however documents can be brought back to the Board for final oversight and approval as necessary, this is usually dependent on risk.
Presidential Taskforce
Some BPS presidents in the past had taskforces related to particular interest topics. These were made up of members with expertise in the area. The documents went through the governance appropriate to the topic of the document.
Documents by the Research board have been drafted by a task and finish group commissioned by the Board and which reports into the board. They will have been through the Research Board governance process, which involves approval by the Board and sign off by the chair of the Board.
