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Oxfordshire County Council
Consultation on the proposed new model
for children's services in Oxfordshire
Questionnaire
1. In what context are you responding to this consultation?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Service user/parent or carer of a service user
Employee/volunteer in children’s centre, hub or in children’s services
Professional partner (e.g. GP, health visitor, teacher etc.)
Oxfordshire resident
Councillor
Responding on behalf of a group/organisation (if yes please state group/organisation below)
Name of group or organisation:
Other (if yes please state below)
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
2. Are you/or is a member of your household currently a user of children’s
centres and/or early intervention hubs in Oxfordshire?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Yes
No
Don’t know
3. Which children centre(s) and/or early intervention hub(s) do you use, or
have you used? (Please tick all that apply)
The Ace Centre
Ambrosden Area Children's Centre
Berinsfield Children's Centre
Bicester Children’s Centre Brookside
Bicester Children’s Centre Glory Farm
Britannia Road Children’s Centre
Butterfly Meadows (Bloxham & Surrounding Area) Children’s Centre
Carterton Children’s Centre
Chalgrove and Watlington Children’s Centre
Didcot Ladygrove Children's Centre
East Oxford Children's Centre
East Street Centre
Elms Road School & Children’s Centre
Faringdon Children's Centre
Florence Park Children's Centre
Grandpont Nursery School & Children’s Centre
Grove and Hanneys Children's Centre
Heyford & Caversfield Area Children's Centre
Kaleidoscope Children’s Centre
Leys Children's Centre
The Maple Tree Children’s Centre
Marston/Northway Children’s Centre
North Abingdon Children's Centre
North and West Witney Children's Centre
North Banbury Children’s Centre
North East Abingdon Children's Centre
North Oxford Children’s Centre
The Orchard (Eynsham and Woodstock Area)
The Rainbow Children’s Centre, Henley
The Rainbow Centre, Sonning Common, Goring, Woodcote and area
Red Kite Children's Centre, Thame
Rose Hill and Littlemore Children’s Centre
The Roundabout Centre
Rural Children’s Centre
Slade and Headington Children's Centre
Stephen Freeman Children's Centre
South Abingdon Children's Centre
South Didcot Children's Centre
Southmoor Children's Centre
The Sunshine Centre
Wallingford Children's Centre
Wantage Children’s Centre
Willow Tree (Bampton and Burford Area) Children’s Centre
Witney Children’s Centre
Abingdon Early Intervention Hub
Banbury Early Intervention Hub
Bicester Early Intervention Hub Didcot Early Intervention Hub
East Oxford Early Intervention Hub
Littlemore Early Intervention Hub
West Oxfordshire Early Intervention Hub (in Witney)
None
4. What kind of children’s centre services and/early intervention hub services
do you use, or have you used? (Please tick all that apply)
I have a key worker
Antenatal support
I receive outreach/family support
Parenting education programmes
Postnatal support
Breast feeding support
Access health services (e.g health visitor appointments/midwife appointments/speech and language support)
Parenting support (group programme)
Domestic abuse support (for parents and children)
Family contact meeting
Dad's group
Child care
Youth group/open access youth session
Mental health support
Stay and play session including family drop ins
Employment and training advice (for parents)
Employment and training advice (for young people)
Health support including healthy eating, smoking cessation, substance misuse, sexual health
Targeted programmes (e.g. young carers, SEN)
I haven’t used any services
Other (please state below)
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
5. Do you or have you used any of the following sites to get children and
young people’s services and support? (Please tick all that apply)
Schools
Libraries
GP surgeries
Community settings such as toddler groups, village halls community centres, preschools/ nurseries etc)
Other (please state below)
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
6. How much do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
“It is important to offer more services to vulnerable children/families than to
all children/families?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Don’t know
6a. Reasons?
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
7. To what extent do you agree or disagree with Oxfordshire County Council’s
overall proposal to create an integrated children’s service for 0-19 year olds
(25 for young people with special educational needs)?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Strongly agree
Agree
Neither agree nor disagree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Don’t know
7a. Reasons?
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
We now want your views on the proposed options for how the
integrated children’s service could be delivered.
8. Which of three options outlined in the consultation document do you
believe offers the best model for delivering integrated services for 0-19 year
olds?, in particular which model do you prefer?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Option One
Option Two
Option Three
None
8a. Why? Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
9. Do you have any alternative proposals for how the council could meet the
£8 million savings required from the children’s services budget?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Yes
No
9a. If you selected ‘Yes’ please outline these proposals below Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
10. What are your biggest concerns if the children’s centres or early
intervention hubs which you use were to close? Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
11. Do you think that any of the groups/activities currently offered by your children’s centre(s) and/or early intervention hub(s) could be run by volunteers and/or community groups in your local area?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Yes
No
Don’t know
If yes, please provide details below Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
We have undertaken an assessment of the impact on individuals
and groups of the proposals for the proposed new children’s
service. This is outlined in the Service and Community Impact
Assessment (SCIA).
12. Please give your views on the impacts identified in the SCIA. Have we
missed anything? Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
13. Do you have any other comments on the proposals to create an integrated
children’s service as set out in the consultation document
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
About you It would be helpful to know a bit about you so we can check whether views differ across the communities we serve. Please note that this section is optional and you do not have to complete these questions if you do not want to. If you would prefer not to answer any of these questions, please tick the ‘prefer not to say’ box so that we are aware of your choice. Any information provided is governed by the Data Protection Act 1998 and will be treated as strictly confidential. If you are responding as a Councillor or representative of a group, school or organisation, please ignore questions 14 to 23 and go straight to Q24.
14. What is the first half of your postcode? This information helps us to understand the impact of these proposals on different
areas of the county and will only be used by Oxfordshire County Council to assist us
when analysing the results of this questionnaire.
Postcode
Prefer not to say
15. Which age group do you fit into? (Please tick ONE box only)
19 or under
20-25
26-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65-74
75 or over
Prefer not to say
16. Are you: (Please tick ONE box only)
Male
Female
Prefer not to say
17. Have you ever identified as transgender?
For the purposes of this question ‘transgender is defined as an individual
who lives, or wants to live, full time in the gender opposite to that which
they were assigned at birth.
(Please tick ONE box only)
Yes
No
Prefer not to say
18. Are you pregnant and/or do you have any children, how old are they? (Please tick all that apply)
I am pregnant
0-5 years old
6-10 years old
11-15 years old
16 – 19 years old
20-24 years old
Prefer not to say
The provision for disability within equalities legislation defines a
person as disabled if they have a physical or mental impairment,
which has a substantial and long term (i.e. has lasted or is
expected to last at least 12 months) and has an adverse effect on
the person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
19. Do you consider yourself to have a disability according to the terms given
in the equality legislation? (Please tick ONE box only)
Yes
No
Prefer not to say
19a If you answered ‘Yes’ to the previous question, please indicate the type of
impairment which applies to you from the list below.
People may experience more than one type of impairment, in which case
please select all that apply. If your disability does not fit any of these types,
please select ‘Other’.
(Please tick all that apply)
Physical impairment, such as difficulty using your arms or mobility issues which means using a wheelchair or crutches
Sensory impairment, such as being blind/having a serious visual impairment or being deaf/having a serious hearing impairment
Mental health conditions, such as depression or schizophrenia
Learning disability, (such as Down’s Syndrome or dyslexia) or cognitive impairment (such as autism or a head injury)
Long-standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease or epilepsy
Other (please specify)
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
Prefer not to say
20. To which of these groups do you consider you belong?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi
White British
Asian or Asian British: Indian
White Irish
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani
Other white background – please specify in the box below
Any other Asian background – please specify in the box below
Gypsy or Irish traveller
Black or Black British: African
Mixed: White and Asian
Black or Black British: Caribbean
Mixed: White and Black African
Any other Black background – please specify in the box below
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean
Chinese
Other mixed background – please specify in the box below
Other ethnic group or background (please specify) Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
21. What is your religion? (Please tick ONE box only)
Baha’I
Jewish
Buddhist
Muslim
Christian (including Church of England, Catholic, Protestant and all other Christian denominations)
Sikh
Hindu
No religion
Jain
Prefer not to say
Any other religion, please state
Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
22. What is your sexual orientation?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Bisexual
Heterosexual/straight
Gay man
Prefer not to say
Gay woman/lesbian
Other (please specify below)
Other Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
23. What is your legal marital or same-sex civil partnership status?
(Please tick ONE box only)
Never married and never registered a same-sex civil partnership
Formerly in a same-sex civil partnership which is now legally dissolved
Married
Divorced
In a registered same-sex civil partnership
Widowed
Separated, but still legally married
Surviving partner from a same-sex civil partnership
Separated, but still legally in a same-sex civil partnership
Prefer not to say
Other Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
24. If you are responding as a Councillor or a representative of a group or
organisation please provide details below.
(Please tick all that apply)
Councillor (please specify the area/areas you represent)
Representative of an educational establishment or organisation (please specify which)
Representative of a health sector organisation (please specify which)
Representative of a voluntary sector organisation (please specify which)
Representative of any other group or organisation (please specify which)
Other Write comments here (use notes page if needed)
25. As a stakeholder responding to this consultation, please indicate if you
would be happy for your full response to be published by the county
council as part of consultation report and/or shared if a request is received
by the county council.
If either case, personal contact details will not be released.
(Please tick ONE box only)
Yes - I am happy for my full response to be published as part of the report
Yes - I am happy for my full response to be shared if a request is received by the county council
No, neither
If you ticked yes, please supply your contact details below
Free text box
Thank you for completing the survey
You can return it to any children’s centre or early intervention hub or send it to the
county council using the following FREEPOST address:
Children’s Services Consultation
FREEPOST OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
(No further address details are required)
Notes
Thank you for completing the survey
You can return it to any children’s centre or early intervention hub or send it to the
county council using the following FREEPOST address:
Children’s Services Consultation
FREEPOST OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
(No further address details are required)
Write comments here. (Submit separate sheets if you need to)