Wirral Annual SEND Survey 2026
Parents, carers, children and young people across Wirral are invited to take part in the first Annual SEND Survey.
Important things to know before you start.
Your answers should only be about your experiences over the last 12 months, since 1st April 2025.
All questions in this survey are optional. If you don’t want to answer a question that is OK. Leave it blank and move to the next question.
Parents
After you click the link you need to register to complete a survey. You only need to complete one survey no matter how many children with SEND you have. The survey allows you to enter information for each of your children separately.
You will also need to register your child or young person if they wish to complete a survey. If you support a child or young person to complete their survey, please avoid the temptation to provide answers they do not know or are unsure of. What they don’t say is useful data.
Children and Young People
When you click the link for your survey you need to enter a name or email and password. You can ask for help to do this and to complete your survey. What you think is important to us. Please don’t worry if you don’t know how to answer a question. Just go to the next one.
What some words mean in the surveys
‘Parent’ means any adult with parental responsibility for a child/young person, including kinship carers and foster parents.
‘Setting’ means any of the following: childminder, nursery, pre-school, primary school, secondary school, alternative provision, post-16 college, or other training.
‘Child’ in the parent carer survey means age 0 -11. For the child/young person’s survey we would only expect children above the age of five to be able to complete it, with support.
‘Young person’ means someone aged 12-25 for the purposes of the survey.
‘Learning Disability’ means someone who has difficulty in learning new skills and information throughout their life. A person with a Learning Disability might have some difficulty:
understanding complicated information
learning some skills
looking after themselves or living alone
The survey gives families the chance to share their views and experiences of special educational needs and disability (SEND) services. These services support children and young people in education, health and social care.
The surveys for 2026 are now live.
They will run for 12 weeks and close on 20 July 2026
More things you may want to know
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Wirral’s Annual SEND Surveys are your chance to help shape the future of services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities across the borough. The Local Area SEND Partnership have worked with the council’s Children’s Services to coproduce the surveys. They are designed to be a once-a-year survey to allow parents, carers, children and young people to have their voice heard loud and clear.
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There is a parent and carer survey. It is an online survey you can complete on any device. Just click on the link on this page and it will take you straight to the survey.
There is a separate child and young person survey. This is also an online survey. Click on the link aboveand it will take you right to it.
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Yes. Above there is a link for you to request a parent and carer survey or a child and young person survey. It will be sent to the address you give us within 10 working days.
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The Easy Read surveys will be ready soon.
There is a parent carer Easy Read survey. It can be completed online. You can also download a copy or ask for a printed copy.
There is a child and young person Easy Read survey. It can also be completed online. You can also download it or ask for a printed copy.
Ask for help if you need it.
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We value your views. We need you to share your experiences so the Local area can see what is going well and where improvements can be made. It will help to plan services that are needed in the future.
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Absolutely! Your voice is important and we want to hear what you think about the support you get. You can ask for help at home or in school if you need it.
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Help to complete a survey
You can go to any of our SENDLO Drop Ins for help to do your survey. Our SENDLO Officer can help you to complete it online or complete a paper copy of any of the surveys.
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