SEND Reform - Manchester Parent/Carer Survey

Your Experience of SEND Services for Children & Young People (0-25)

As you may know, the Government published the Schools White Paper, “Every child achieving and thriving”, earlier this year. Together with this, the Department for Education published a SEND Reform consultation that closes on the 18th of May 2026.

We are in the process of formulating our forum response to the consultation and we'd love to hear your views and experiences to help us compose the best and most representative response on behalf of Manchester's families.

Please answer this survey to share your feedback with us. It would take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

If you have more than one child with SEND and your experience varies for each child, please complete separate surveys for each of them. If your experiences of challenges and support are the same for the children then feel free to put them together in one response.

To thank you for your time and effort, we will be raffling off five £30 shopping vouchers to respondents. Please submit your name and contact info at the end of this survey to be entered into the prize draw.

We will close this survey by the 13th of May to allow us time to process and analyse responses, and finalise our response to the government consultation.

About Your Child

1.What age range(s) is/are your child(ren) or young person/people?(Required.)

If you're responding for multiple children in one survey, please feel free to write some comments here. If your experience for each children vary widely, we encourage answering the survey separately for each child.

2.What is/are your child(ren)'s or young person/people's ethnicity?

Asian or Asian British - Indian / Pakistani / Bangladeshi / Chinese / Any other Asian background

Black, Black British, Caribbean or African - Caribbean / African / Any other Black, Black British, or Caribbean background

Mixed or multiple ethnic groups - White and Black Caribbean / White and Black African / White and Asian / Any other Mixed or multiple ethnic background

White - English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British / Irish / Gypsy or Irish Traveller / Roma / Any other White background

Other ethnic group - Arab / Any other ethnic group

Please specify:

I prefer not to say.

3.What is/are your child(ren)'s or young person/people's gender?

Female

Male

Other (please specify, e.g. non-binary, trans F-M, trans M-F, etc)

I prefer not to say.

6.Please tell us your child's ward of residence.(Required.)

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7.Which set of questions would you like to send feedback for?(Required.)

Identification and Provision of Needs

Educational Support

Wider Support

All of the Above