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)