PINS Survey 2025
Your voice matters – PINS project.
This Parent and Carer Survey is a chance to share your views and experiences as part of the Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) programme*. This survey will be open for 2 weeks.

Why this survey matters.
The PINS project aims to make mainstream schools more inclusive and supportive for children with additional educational needs. Your feedback will help us understand what schools are doing well and where improvements could be made.

Who can take part:
The survey is for all parents and carers with children at schools participating in the PINS project. Your child does not need to have a diagnosis or be waiting for assessment, we want to hear from everyone! If you have more than one child at the school, you are welcome to complete a separate survey for each child.

How your information will be used:
All responses will be kept confidential and secure, in line with GDPR legislation. Only the BANES Parent Carer Forum will have access to individual responses. These will not be shared with schools or other partners.

A generalised summary of the main themes from the survey will be shared with your school and the PINS partners: NHS England, the Department for Education, and the NNPCF. Great care is taken to ensure that it is not possible to identify individuals from this summary.  The only time personal information would be shared is if a response raises a safeguarding concern.

Important to note:
Because the survey is anonymous it cannot be used to raise individual concerns about your child or their school and it is not a way to report safeguarding concerns. If you have a safeguarding concern about your child or another child, please contact your school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead and follow your school’s or local area’s safeguarding procedures.

*This project is funded by NHS England and delivered in partnership with the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF).
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1. Consent Statement
By providing consent, you are agreeing that personal information about you will be collected anonymously, stored securely and will not identify anyone personally. The information from the survey will be used to understand the current strengths and potential areas of improvement in a school. The anonymised, thematic data will be used and shared with primary schools and PINS project team.
Once consent has been provided you have the right to withdraw your views and your views will be removed, however where data has been anonymised and amalgamated into thematic responses in certain circumstances it may not be able to be excluded.
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2. Please select your primary school
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3. How welcoming do you find your child’s school?
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Very Unwelcoming
Extremely Welcoming
4. Do you, as a parent carer, feel included in the wider school community?
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Not included
Very included
5. Do you feel your child is included in the wider school community? 
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Not Included
Very Included
6. How well does the school communicate with you about your child’s development and education?
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Never communicates
Communicates extremely well
7. Do you know what support is provided for your child to meet their additional needs in school? 
(If your child does not have any additional needs please leave this question blank)
Have no knowledge
Have complete knowledge
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8. Do you feel that the school supports/makes reasonable adjustments to extra-curricular activities and enrichment? eg trips, special events, visitors into school. (Please skip if not applicable.) *
Reasonable adjustments are never made
Reasonable adjustments are always made
9. How often do you and the school communicate about your child (including but not limited to telephone, email, face to face, school apps) 
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10.Do you feel your views are heard and valued when communicating with the school about your child?
Never feel heard & valued
Always feel heard & valued
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11. Do you ever feel worried or anxious about your child whilst they are in school in relation to their additional needs?
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Never
Always
12. If you have a concern or complaint about support for your child, how confident do you feel about raising your concern with the school and that your concern will be resolved?
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Not at all confident
Very confident
13. Does your child have any additional educational needs? 
For the purposes of this survey, this includes a broad range of needs, including - but not limited to: ADHD, autism, language disorders, dyslexia, dyspraxia, learning disabilities, learning difficulty, tourettes/tics...)  *
14. If you would like to, please give further details about any of your answers, please use the comment box.
15. If you are happy for a member of BANES Parent Carer Forum team to contact you to discuss any feedback provided or opportunities to be more involved in this work please provide us with contact details below.

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