Voluntary Sector Service

The Voluntary Sector Service (VSS) is a part of the Care Forum and works across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

The VSS promises voluntary, community and social enterprise groups and commissioners that they can count on us for specialist, strategic health and wellbeing intelligence to improve inclusion, understanding and collaboration.

This survey aims to check people’s understanding of our service and make sure we are providing the most effective services we can. We want to know how useful our services are for local organisations and to find out if there are any changes we could make that would be helpful for local groups.

Please give your view on the questions below. The third question is to understand your knowledge of the VSS team, you can go into as much, or as little, detail as you like.

 From the fourth question your answers can be rated on a scale of 1-5. If you would like to expand, any other information you have would be extremely useful and you can leave a comment in the box below each question.

Please rate the questions below on a scale of 1-5.

1 = Strongly Disagree
2 = Disagree
3 = Neither agree nor disagree
4 = Agree
5 = Strongly Agree

With some of the questions we have asked you to individual rate the different kinds of information we produce (Ebulletins, Info Sheets, twitter and website).

This survey will be open until 05/10/18

Thank you in advance for your help with this.

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* 1. Where do you work? (tick all that apply)

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* 2. How many staff does your organisation employ?

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* 3. If you were describing to someone what the Voluntary Sector Service does, what would you tell them?

Information:

Information sent by the VSS Team includes monthly E Bulletins, E Alerts, consultation results and latest news from commissioners/council & providers.

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* 4. The information sent by the VSS Team is useful in keeping me up to date with the latest news within the health and social care sector locally/regionally (Rate 1 – 5)

  Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree nor disagree Agree Strongly Agree
Monthly Ebulletin
Information Sheets
VSS Twitter Feed
Care Forum Website

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* 5. The information sent by the VSS team is useful in keeping me up to date with the latest news within the health and social care sector nationally

  Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree or disagree Agree Strongly agree
Monthly Ebulletin
Information Sheets
VSS Twitter Feed
Care Forum website

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* 6. The information shared by the VSS team improves my understanding of subjects I already have some knowledge on

  Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree or disagree Agree Strongly agree
Monthly Ebulletins
Information Sheets
VSS Twitter feed
Care forum website

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* 7. The information the VSS team send me is relevant to my work or community

  Strongly disagree Disagree Neither agree or disagree Agree Strongly agree
Monthly Ebulletins
Information sheets
VSS Twitter feed
Care Forum website
How the Voluntary Sector Services team fits into the work of the Care Forum:

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* 8. I can clearly distinguish between the VSS team and other teams within The Care Forum (eg Healthwatch or Well Aware)

Events:

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* 9. The meetings/conferences that are put on by the VSS team are a good use of my time

Partnership Working/wider sector:

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* 10. I have the opportunity to better share my/my organisations views with Commissioners/Service Planners/Healthcare providers as a result of the work done by the VSS team

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* 11. Participating in events organised by the VSS team means my/my organisations views have an influence on the way health, wellbeing and social care services are commissioned and delivered

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* 12. I have better links with commissioners/healthcare providers/service planners as a result of the work done by the VSS team

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* 13. I have better links with other organisations in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector as a result of the work done by the VSS team

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* 14. Please take this opportunity to let us know if there is anything that the VSS team could do more of/less of/differently etc

Thank you so much for taking the time to fill out this survey. We will ensure that your feedback is used to ensure that the VSS Team are as useful as we possibly can be for the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors in South Gloucestershire.

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