SHEU

Who commissions SHEU surveys? Public Health / Drug Action Teams / Local Authoroities/Children's Services / Schools / Colleges

Who completes SHEU surveys? Pupils and Students / Parents/Carers / Staff

Who commissions SHEU surveys?

Public Health

Health and Wellbeing Boards, Primary Care Trusts, Community Health Partnerships (CHP) and Local Health Boards (LHB) use our services to provide base-line data about the health related behaviour of young people in their area. Often, in partnership with other agencies, people in Public Health  use the results to inform their programme and service planning.

Directors of Public Health often take the lead on the collecting of data for local needs assessment and health promotion and our services support their work including results in the Director's Annual Reports.

The report 'Supporting the Health of Young People in Your Area' is an example of how the survey results can support your work and inform you and your partners.

[More information for Public Health]

DATs

We have worked hard to ensure that our secondary questionnaires provide the type of information that is useful to Drug Action Teams. Our general questionnaire V23 has been scrutinised by a number of DAT partners for its validity and usefulness. The resulting data are now finding their way, more than ever before, into DATs Young People's Substance Misuse Plans. Repeat survey strategies are being identified in order to monitor behaviour.

[More information for DATs]

LAs

Local Authorities have commissioned SHEU surveys to support:

• Healthy Schools Programme
• PSHE and Citizenship work
• Baseline and monitoring information for Joint Area Reviews
• Partnership working with Public Health

Over the years many local authorities have used our nationally recognised survey services to provide robust local data. They include:

You can see an example of the type of summary report we currently produce for the authorities commissioning our services. Schools and colleges involved receive a comprehensive set of data and a comparative report about their own students which is a valuable resource for curriculum planning for school's OFSTED self evaluation forms and college's healthy college development.

Schools

We have versions for early primary and later primary pupils.

A longer and more thorough questionnaire can be designed for secondary-age pupils.

Colleges

Since 2000, SHEU has been developing services for FE & 6th Form Colleges. A student survey instrument has been successfully trailed and piloted with Colleges. A free online survey has been offered to colleges. A confidential databank is developing and currently holds information from students about their attitudes and lifestyle behaviours in relation to health. This unique resource enables comparisons to be made across a range of questions. Not only would colleges have information with regard to your students you may also have comparative, anonymous data from students in your region or elsewhere.

[More information for Colleges]

Who completes SHEU surveys?

Pupils and Students

Since 1977, over a million questionnaires have been completed by young people with SHEU. 

"I've never looked at myself before", said one.

Our questionnaires are all designed for a specific group:

• Early Primary
• Later Primary
• Secondary
• Sixth Form and FE College students
• HE and University Students

Parents and carers

Our parent surveys have mostly been perception surveys rather than lifestyle surveys, although we have done both.
They can be completed on paper or online, and can be customised to suit your situation.

Staff

We have carried out work with staff wellbeing: for instance, see our example staff wellbeing survey.

Which questions do you want to ask in your survey?

Perception or Lifestyle surveys? Single-topic or Comprehensive?  Off-the-shelf or Customised?

Perception surveys

[Looking for our online surveys? Try http://www.schoolsurveys.co.uk/ ]

Surveys can be completed on paper or online.

We launched our online survey service in 2004 and at the time we had the idea that nearly all our survey work would be online by now.  While the proportion of work online has increased, some clients find that paper surveys are still more convenient for them.  But what are the benefits of doing a survey online?

Benefits of the Online Survey

• Greater Student Access: All students in a year group can take part, not just a sample
• Instant access to results at the end of the survey period
• Facilities for instant printing of results in different formats for presentations. e.g. graphs
• Own school/college figures can be compared with the group of others who complete online
• It is an intelligent questionnaire, students only see questions relevant to them
• Graphics are more friendly
• Option for personal health feedback for students
• Website links for students who finish early
• Telephone help support

More information about the online version of the school survey (including a Demonstration version) can be found here:

www.schoolsurveys.co.uk

More information about the 6th Form/Further Education online version of the survey can be found here:

www.healthsurveys.co.uk

Follow this link for comments from SHEU survey users

What do you get back?

We are experienced in producing reports for a variety of purposes and audiences:

Click on a thumbnail picture to see a larger version in a new window.

We can organise printing for you; we do not add a handling fee but pass on the amount on the printer's bill.

School reports
Book of tables This is the first report sent to a school and shows all your results for every question, usually broken down by age and sex. We can produce charts too, if you like. All these results can be seen immediately if you are using the online survey.
Comparison report This report usually arrives later, and shows your school results compared with a reference sample (usually a local one).  We can of course compare your results to a previous study in your school. We have designed a special report designed to support completion of your School Self-Evaluation Form for OFSTED .
Pupil report This report is written for primary pupils and talks about the results of the health survey which took place in primary schools in their area. It has been organised into topics to help pupils, teachers, parents and carers think about health and wellbeing in their school.	Example report (1008kb pdf)
Area reports
Book of tables This is the first report available and shows all your results for every question, usually broken down by age and sex, and by any other groups you require.
Summary report
A colourful, readable report for public dissemination.  The report can include details about local programmes and comparisons with a reference sample.
		Comparisons	Comparisons
The reports can be for a particular district (Harrogate), for a particular topic (drugs), and include commissioned analysis (links).  Local reports can include comparisons with the whole district.
	Harrogate	Drugs	Links
Full report We will also work with you to produce an in-depth report analysing and commenting on your results.			:
The report can include more detailed analysis than for schools, including a breakdown by categories to match your planning processes.  The report can include additional analysis to explore what is going on under the surface			:

Other reports

Custom reports

We have occasionally been asked to produce a report from our data banks for a client, for example, the Time for Change report from OFSTED.

Monographs

From time to time we have produced single-topic reports from our databanks for publication, including titles on drugs, weapons, bullying, emotional health and well-being, and toothbrushing.

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When can we complete the survey?

We can set up an online survey for you now, or send you paper questionnaires in the post tomorrow. 

How long does a survey take to complete?

The shortest questionnaires we offer can be completed within 15 minutes, while our longer lifestyle questionnaires can take up to an hour.  Online, the computer will skip pages that are not relevant.

When will we get our results back?

Online, the results are available during the time that you are doing the survey, and will be complete when the last questionnaire is complete.  We will get someone here to check through the results to see if there are any 'odd' answers.

For paper surveys, return times depend on the length of the questionnaire, and the size of the queue you are joining.  We don't usually use machine-reading for surveys, as we know pupils like to write all sorts of things and aren't always very neat!  So your questionnaires will each be read by two separate members of staff to check the answers are sound.

We have a target of 6 weeks maximum for any school survey, but if you need the results quickly for a meeting or an inspection, then let us know and we will accommodate.

If you are taking part in a district survey, then any comparison reports will have to wait for the last survey to be completed before we can calculate the district results.  But you will normally have your own tables of results before then.

Prices can can from less than £100 to carry out a primary school parent perception survey online, to some hundreds of pounds to do a full lifestyle survey on paper with secondary school pupils in two year groups.

We will work hard to accommodate your needs inside your budget: give us a call!

Costs can be reduced by using a shorter questionnaire, asking fewer subjects, doing the survey online and using an existing questionnaire.

If we give you an estimate, there will be no hidden extras like set-up fees or airport taxes to pay.

Contact Angela Balding on (01392) 66 72 72 or by e-mail to discuss your requirements.

To see what sort of reports you can receive, see our Reports page.

You might have different questions depending on who you are:

Questions Frequently asked by:

Pupils and Students: FAQs

Parents and Carers: FAQs

Schools and Colleges: FAQs

Healthy School Managers and Co-ordinators, Local Authorities, Public Health, Drug Action Teams: FAQs