In the past 12 months many local authorities have used our nationally recognised survey services to provide robust local data. They include: Bedford, Bolton, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Dudley, Ealing, Haringey, Hertfordshire, Knowsley, Lambeth, Lewisham, Manchester, Merton, Milton Keynes, North Yorkshire, Peterborough, Rochdale, Rutland, Sefton, Solihull, Southwark, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Waltham Forest, Wiltshire and Wolverhampton.
Our surveys provide an invaluable source of local data that can inform the CYPP as they progress. For example:
Sunderland's CYPP states it will,
"Carry out the (SHEU) Health Related Behaviour Survey with secondary schools and their feeder primary schools to gain baseline data," (to be repeated every 2 years) and, "Develop programmes/ interventions to support City of Sunderland College based on needs identified by the (SHEU) Health Related Behaviour Survey" (p.10 & p.14 Sunderland's CYPP 2006 - 2009).
Wolverhampton's CYPP states it will commission,
"...nationally recognised SHEU Health Related Behaviour (on-line) Survey in all... schools in Wolverhampton." "This will provide both individual schools and the Local Authority with a baseline of rich data about a variety of health related behaviours and lifestyle issues which it would be extremely difficult to acquire reliably from any other source" (p.10 Wolverhampton's CYPP 2006 - 2009).
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.
The database that arises from our survey work provides information, valuable for Joint Area Reviews, that is also shared among joint commissioning bodies including LAs, PCTs, DATs, Teenage Pregnancy Teams, as well as Healthy School and College programmes. A repeat survey strategy is being used to reflect the changing nature of the needs of the local young population and support CYPP as they develop.
HRBQ surveys have also been widely used to provide evidence in connection with Joint Area Reviews.
If you would like one of my team to attend a meeting to explain our surveys and to answer any specific questions you may have, please let us know directly: