You and your child will soon be preparing to start the journey towards primary school. Your early years provider belongs to a project called Talking Transitions. Talking Transitions aims to smooth the progression to school whilst ensuring that your child's communication and language skills are supported during the summer holidays.
Before your journey begins, we would like to gather your thoughts and experiences about your child's transition to school.

As part of our continual assessment of services, A Better Start Southend (ABSS) invites parents and carers to complete very short surveys to give us insights of your experiences. This helps us to better understand and improve services in the future, to ensure that parent/carer needs are being met.

Your participation in this survey will be greatly appreciated by us and future Talking Transitions families. Thank you!

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* 1. By ticking this box, you agree that you have read the above information
about the survey and understand that your participation is voluntary

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* 2. What is your postcode?            **this information is collected for area identification purposes

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* 3. What is your age?

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* 4. What is your main language spoken at home?

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* 5. Which languages do your children speak?

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* 6. If English is not your home language, would you describe your understanding of English as:

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* 7. What is your child's gender?

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* 8. Is this the first time you have experienced a child moving up to primary school?

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* 9. How confident do you feel about the process of your child moving up to school?

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* 10. Could you ask your child how confident they feel about the process of moving up to school? How confident do they feel?

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* 11. What additional or alternative support would you like regarding your child moving up to primary school?

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* 12. We are hosting additional interviews to understand more about the Talking Transitions experience, these participants will receive a £20 Amazon voucher. If you would like to participate, please complete the below section. If you provide your details, a researcher from the University of Essex will contact you to discuss the details of your interview and your contact details will only be used to get in touch with you about this interview. You can read more about how we process your data on our Privacy Notice

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* 13. I am happy for my contact details to be used to participate in the Talking Transitions additional interviews

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