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PODS Experience Survey 2023 - Prize Draw for £50 Shopping Voucher!!

Our involvement as a Parent Carer Forum has never been as important as we continue to represent our families at meetings with health, social care and education teams. 

We will also be involved in the new local programme: "The Department for Education has selected Telford & Wrekin Council to lead a programme aiming to improve the lives of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities or in Alternative Provision"

So far our SEND experience survey is showing these initial results, please help us to share more experiences by completing our form (and free entry into a prize draw to win £50 shopping voucher).

We have had 51% respondents from Primary age, 26% from Secondary age, 8% from Early Years, 15% adults/further education.

Ratings (out of 5 stars) of key services demonstrate:

3.1 / 5 for Education 

2.9 / 5 for Social Care 

2.8 / 5 for Health

2.6 / 5 for Adults

(we have over 200 comments to work through from families who have given more info)

Parent Carer Experiences overall:

Physical Health: 55% reported good or very good

Feeling Happy: 55% reported good or very good

Emotional Health: 69% reported poor/very poor

Isolated and Lonely: 42% reported poor/very poor

Children and Young People's experience overall:

Physical Health: 84% reported good or very good

Feeling Happy: 74% reported good or very good

Emotional Health: 49% reported poor or very poor

Isolated and Lonely: 54% reported poor or very poor

Services and Activities used by families:

Top 3 rated service offers currently include: My Options, Libraries and Leisure

We have hundreds of responses for 'What's working' and 'What would work better' and we have had 45 families offering case studies.

Thank you to everyone who has commented and completed so far.

Please help us to share more experiences by completing our survey below:

 PODS Annual Survey

Thank you for helping us to 'Make A Difference'.

Many Thanks
Jayne Stevens

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Kerrie Seagrave, Member Support Co-ordinator

on behalf of PODS Parent Carer Forum.

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