Appendices
Appendix 1 survey
Lincolnshire County Council are undertaking a parental survey to assess the need for childcare in the Mablethorpe area.
Your views on this survey are important to help us shape the future of childcare services in the Mablethorpe area and ensure they meet your needs.
Within this survey, childcare is considered as care and education provided for children aged 0 to 4 years that you pay for and rely on to enable you to work, study or volunteer or where you access your child’s early years funded education entitlement (15 or 30 hours).
Please only complete this survey if you live and access childcare in the Mablethorpe area.
Your responses to this survey are intended to be anonymous. When completing open text responses, remember not to include personal or sensitive information.
If you are logged in when completing the survey, your user account details will be recorded against your responses.
Your user account details will be removed before survey responses are analysed.
If you do not want your user account details associated with your responses, you should log out of your account before continuing with the survey. You can then respond anonymously.
For further information on how we process your information, see our privacy notice.
1. Do you have children aged 0-4 years or are you expecting a baby in the next 6 months? Mandatory question.
- Yes
- No - please skip to the end of the survey
2. Do you live or access childcare in the Mablethorpe area? Mandatory question
- Yes
- No - we are seeking the views of people who live or access childcare in the Mablethorpe area, as you have told us that you do not live or access childcare in Mablethorpe the survey has ended. Please skip to end of survey
3. What age is your child/children? Select all that apply. Mandatory question
- Currently pregnant
- Under 1 year old
- 1 year old
- 2 years old
- 3 years old
- 4 years old
4. Do you currently access childcare? Mandatory question
- Yes. If yes, please state where your child attends. Please answer 4.1 below
- No - please answer 4.2 below
4.1 My childcare provision: Mandatory question
- Meets my family's needs
- Does not meet my family's needs - please answer 4.1.1 below
4.1.1 Please select the most appropriate reason: Mandatory question
- Does not open enough hours
- Does not open enough weeks a year
- Does not meet the specific needs of my child
- Is difficult to get to
- Cannot offer me the places I need
- Other - please specify
4.2 What is the reason you do not access childcare? Please choose the most appropriate answer. Mandatory question
- I do not want my child to attend childcare
- I have a barrier to accessing childcare - please answer 4.2.1 below
4.2.1 Please choose the most appropriate reason: Mandatory question
- My child is not eligible for funded hours
- I am unable to get a place that meets my family's needs (times/days)
- I do not have transport and the childcare is too far away
- I cannot afford the costs
- My preferred provider(s) are full
- Other, please specify
5. Are you intending to start to use childcare in the next 6 months?
- Yes - answer Q.5.1
- No
5.1 If yes, can you tell us why? Please choose the most appropriate option.
- To access a funded 3- & 4-year-old place
- To access a funded 2-year-old place
- I am returning to work
- I will be starting training or studying and will need childcare
6. The funded offer is changing, as of April 2024 eligible 2-year-olds of working families will be entitled to 15 hours of funded childcare. In September 2024 this offer will be extended to children aged 9 months and by September 2025, children from 9 months to school age will be able to access 30 hours of funded childcare.
With this in mind, how might your childcare needs change?
- I will be eligible and intend to take up the new offer
- I will not be eligible for the new offer and my childcare needs will not change