Making Surveys Count

Are you finding it harder to get parent carers to complete your surveys? Wondering whether your annual survey is reaching the right people or whether there are better ways to gather meaningful feedback? Join colleagues from Bristol Parent Carer Forum and Shropshire Parent Carer Forum as they share their experiences, practical tips and lessons learned from running successful surveys and gathering parent carer views. This interactive session explores: • Planning effective annual and topic-specific surveys. • Choosing the right survey platform, including SurveyMonkey, Microsoft Forms, Google Forms and other digital tools. • Promoting surveys through social media, newsletters, events and partner organisations. • Encouraging more parent carers to take part, including the use of incentives and prize draws. • Understanding and tackling survey fatigue. • Alternative ways to gather feedback beyond traditional surveys, such as focus groups, listening events, polls, conversations and engagement activities. • Analysing your results and identifying key themes. • Reporting back to families and demonstrating the impact of their feedback. • Using survey findings to influence local services and strengthen co-production. Whether you're new to running surveys or looking for fresh ideas to improve response rates and engagement, this session will provide practical advice you can take away and use straight away.