Post-16 Provision Survey

Gathering meaningful stakeholder feedback on post-16 provision requires a different frame from surveys elsewhere in the school. Post-16 students are well placed to reflect critically on whether their courses are stretching them, whether they received genuinely useful guidance when choosing their programme and whether provision is equipping them for life beyond school. Parents of post-16 students often feel less visible in the school community than they did lower down, and staff working in sixth form contexts bring specific expertise and perspectives that whole-school surveys rarely capture in enough depth.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about post-16 provision, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You’ll get:

• Three ready-to-use surveys – a student survey using a Likert scale for independent completion, a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit
• A question and statement bank covering curriculum challenge and teaching quality, advice, guidance and course fit, inclusion and belonging, careers and future plans, work experience and wider opportunities, student voice, curriculum structure and assessment, intervention and academic support, and preparation for adulthood
• A survey analysis template with tally tables, open question theme tables, a summary and next steps section, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings
• A pre-survey checklist to guide you through each stage of the process, and four survey letter templates for communicating with parents and staff before and after the survey
• An 18-page PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

All documents are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school’s specific context.

Further post-16 provision resources can be found on our honeyguide-sls website.