Healthwatch West Sussex are working on a Lived Experience project, in partnership with West Sussex County Council (WSCC). This work is part of WSCC Right From The Start Early Years and Childcare strategy 2024-2027, to ensure that service proposals developed include the voices of parents, carers, children, and their community. 

Our survey aims to discover what information parents/carers already know about early years services, including family hubs, health services, and early years and childcare provision. This will help to create a baseline that can be used to check progress in 2027 to gauge how successful this work has been. 

We are very interested in any potential barriers you've encountered in accessing early years and childcare services to date. Your answers are important to help shape local community services that are designed to better support you and your family’s needs now and in the future.  

Completing the survey.

This survey will take less than 15 minutes to complete depending on how much information you would like to share. By responding to the following questions, you will be making a huge contribution to this project.

The survey closes on the 30th April 2025. 

If you would prefer to complete by phone, or a hard copy please call 0300 012 0122 or email Cheryl (cheryl.berry@healthwatchwestsussex.co.uk).

Thank you so much and we look forward to hearing from you.   

All responses provided will be anonymous.  

This survey has been designed to ensure that responses provided are anonymous and cannot be used to identify you. However, there are free text boxes within the survey which we ask you to complete – please ensure you do not include any information which may be used to identify you. 

All questions are voluntary, and information will be used in our Right from the Start reports, updates on our webpages, and through our social media. This will inform interested stakeholders, partners and local residents.

Healthwatch West Sussex is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and security. Any information that you give will be held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.  

Our Privacy statement sets out the data processing practices carried out by Healthwatch West Sussex. For more information on how we use your information please see our Privacy Policy.