This article has been brought to you by Slough Borough Council's Associate Director for Children and Families, Michael Jarrett, on behalf of Frimley CCG's Children and Young People’s Mental Health Lead for East Berkshire, Giovanni Ferri. This is for the attention of all headteachers excluding special schools.
The Oxwell Student Survey opens to students on 5th May and closes on 25th June.
Reminder that you can register your education setting to take part in the survey by clicking here. More information about the survey can be found on the briefing document attached below.
The aim is to inform education settings and local services across health/LAs about the needs and experiences of young people and help to ensure that the resources available can be targeted at areas of most need. Survey data can also to monitor the impact of interventions.
The survey is for pupils in years 5 -13, there are 3 age-matched versions (years 5-7, years 8-11, years 12-13/FE), unfortunately special schools are excluded.
A 15 minute recording sharing the perspective from a Deputy Head, Trevor O’neil from Langley Academy in Slough can be found here. Trevor discusses how pupils took part during the lockdown period last summer, the importance of stakeholder involvement and how the school used the results. Trevor also shares his top tips for participation which has been attached below.
We suggest education settings take part in survey over several weeks during May, but if they need to take part later they still can, however those that take part during May will receive summary reports before the summer holidays. To that end, it may be useful to book your IT rooms now and plan for a different year group to take part each day over several weeks.
All Education settings will then get access to their data online via the digital platform called Lodeseeker in the autumn, at this point they will also have support from an asst psychologist to support them to engage with their survey data.
For any queries please email: cypmhtraining.eastberks@nhs.net.