Police Leavers Employment Gateway Evaluation Survey

Introduction

The Police Leavers Employment Gateway hosted by the Police Leavers Partnership (PLP) is an online platform is designed to support every police leaver. It provides a range of tools and resources to ensure a successful transition into civilian life. The platform provides resources creating tailored CVs, interview skills, how to use Linkedin to network, find job opportunities and showcase your transferable skills and experience to future employers. The platform also provides materials to support wellbeing and resilience during the transition to ensure you are fully prepared for each step of the process.

The College of Policing National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) has commission a pilot of the Police Leavers Employment Gateway. The platform will be made available to officers and staff who are leaving the police service until the end of March 2025. The pilot is being supported by the police staff associations, including the Police Federation (FED), Police Superintendents Association (PSA) and the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA).

In order to understand more about the police leavers using the platform, whether it has been effective in supporting them leaving policing and if they have found it useful. We have designed a short evaluation survey. We are asking officers to complete this before they start using the platform and at the end of the pilot. Your feedback before and after trialling the Police Leavers Employment Gateway is very important and will help secure additional funding to continue and expand this important service.

The anonymous survey will take 15-20 minutes to complete. We will ask you to complete this before you start using platform and at the end of the pilot.

Your responses are stored and reported anonymously. In order to collect and store the information you provide within this survey, we require your explicit consent. Participant
information and more information on this survey can be accessed at www.policeleavers.org/policies

The participant information provides details on: -
- What we will use your data for
- How we will store your data
- Whether we will share your data and with whom
- Your right to withdraw and how you are able to do this
- The research ethics which govern the storage and collection of your data

Please read the participant information via the link above and then if you are happy to give your consent please tick all of the boxes below.

If you have any questions, or want to request to withdraw from the survey, please contact the evaluation lead Dr Ceri Jones on info@policeleavers.org


1.I have read the participant information and consent to take part in the study. 
2.I understand that my anonymous responses will be stored securely and used for evaluation purposes.(Required.)
3.I consent to the collection of ethnicity data for the purposes of the study. I understand that this is considered special category data under data protection regulation and will be processed in compliance with GDPR.(Required.)
4.I understand that my participation is voluntary and I can withdraw up to 7 days after the survey has been completed.(Required.)
5.I understand that the anonymous findings may be shared with the funder NPWS and relevant parties and utilised in academic publications and conferences(Required.)
6.I consent to being contacted using the details I provided to register for the Police Leavers Employment Gateway to take part in the post pilot evaluation survey.(Required.)
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