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* 1. What is your position within your organisation?

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* 2. What is your gender?

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* 3. Are you from a college, university, or other organisation working with student carers?

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* 4. Please provide a short description of how you support student carers in your role. 

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* 5. How are student carers currently identified to you/your organisation?

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* 6. From your perspective, how challenging are the following for student cares?

  Very challenging  Challenging Neither challenging nor easy Not at all challenging 
Mental Health
Physical Health
Finances
Finding the right support for their cared for person 
Keeping up with course work
Managing time 
Being able to get involved with student life, example: joining clubs and societies
The application process
Having enough to include in their personal statements

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* 7. Thinking about the students you support, how impactful do you think their caring role is on their studies?

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* 8. Thinking about the student carers you support...

  Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree
Student carers access all the support available to them at college and/or university
Students know who to ask for support at college and/or university
Students are proactive in seeking out support at college and/or university
Students often wait till crisis point before seeking support at college and/or university

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* 9. Thinking about your place of work, the support available for student carers is:

  Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree
Helpful 
Easy to access 
Easy to find out about 

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* 10. Thinking about your place of work, how would you rate the uptake from student carers on the support available to them? 0 is very poor uptake, and 10 is excellent uptake.

0 Average 10
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* 11. How do you find...

  Very Difficult  Difficult Neither difficult nor easy Easy Very Easy 
Knowing/identifying student carers 
Getting in touch with student carers
Meeting with student carers in person 
Understanding what support student carers need
Volume of student carers requiring support
Finding time to support student carers among other responsibilities 

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* 12. How do you communicate with student carers, and how effective do you find it?

  Very effective Effective Neither effective of ineffective Ineffective Very ineffective  Do not use this method 
Email 
Group meetings 
1-to-1 appointments/meetings
Social media groups
Direct messaging via text, or other direct message platform 

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* 13. What would enable you to better support student carers in your role?

  Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree
Training on carers and carers issues
Increased capacity 
More information on where to signpost student carers
Greater information on what college/universities have internally to support student carers
A working relationship with the carers centre local to the college/university
Knowing who student carers are

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* 14. Do you think the student carer experience is:

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* 15. There are many aspects to your role in supporting student carers. Please use this space to give further details, or to tell us something that we haven't asked, but you feel is important.

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* 16. Thank you for taking part in this survey. If you consent to being contacted with updates on the project, or to be asked to give a case study or interview, please complete your contact information.

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