Inclusion Survey Pack

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, 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 covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

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

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What's in this Inclusion Survey Pack?

This pack provides a complete, end-to-end system for gathering, analysing and acting on stakeholder feedback about inclusion. Every document is aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, and the survey templates are pre-populated so your team can get started without having to build surveys from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Pupil Feedback Survey: Inclusion – two versions to suit different age groups and abilities. The first uses a four-point emoji/faces scale with simpler language, suitable for younger pupils or those who may find self-expression more challenging. Questions cover whether pupils feel helped in ways that work for them, whether they feel included in everything school offers, whether adults treat everyone fairly and whether they feel they belong. The second uses a Likert scale (Strongly agree to Strongly disagree) with more developed language, covering adaptive support, access to help, fairness, belonging, pupil voice and the school's celebration of diversity. Both versions include open questions giving pupils the opportunity to share what the school does well and what could be improved. Both avoid a neutral midpoint to encourage pupils to express a clear preference.

☑️ Parent Feedback Survey: Inclusion – a 12-question closed survey plus two open questions, using a four-point Likert scale. Questions cover understanding and support for individual needs, high expectations, access to enrichment opportunities, fairness, communication, approachability and confidence in raising concerns. Includes guidance on timing, distribution, anonymity and how to aim for a meaningful response rate.

☑️ Staff Feedback Survey: Inclusion – 12 closed questions and two open questions, designed to gather professional views on identifying and meeting diverse needs, adaptive teaching, inclusion culture, SENDCo support, information-sharing, leadership, training and collaboration. Includes an optional role field so responses can be grouped by teaching and support staff if useful – particularly valuable for revealing whether teaching assistants and class teachers have different views on the effectiveness of inclusion provision. Guidance on timing, distribution and achieving a meaningful return rate is included.

☑️ Inclusion Question and Statement Bank – a broad bank of additional questions and statements across all three stakeholder groups, organised by theme and audience. Includes general questions for all pupils alongside targeted questions for pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known (or previously known) to children's social care and pupils facing other barriers to learning or well-being. The parent section similarly includes targeted questions for families of pupils with SEND, disadvantaged families, families of children known to social care and those facing other barriers. Staff questions cover understanding and meeting needs, inclusion culture and leadership, working with the SENDCo and DSL, training and professional development, and collaboration.

☑️ Survey Analysis: Inclusion – structured analysis templates for each stakeholder group, each with a closed questions tally table, an open questions theme table and a summary and next steps section. An Overall Summary Triangulation table brings findings from all three groups together and uses a RAG rating system to identify shared strengths, areas of concern and themes where stakeholder responses diverge.

☑️ Pre-Survey Checklist – a step-by-step checklist covering every stage of the survey process, from clarifying your purpose and confirming questions through to closing the survey, analysing responses, feeding back to the community and updating your school improvement plan.

☑️ Survey Letter Templates – four ready-made letter templates: a notification letter to parents and carers, a notification letter to staff, a feedback letter to parents and carers and a feedback letter to staff. Each is editable and structured to support clear, professional communication throughout the survey process.

☑️ Inclusion Stakeholder Feedback and Survey Guidance – an 18-page guidance document covering the full survey cycle. It includes advice on why surveys matter, how to choose questions and formats, how to encourage participation, how to analyse results (including how to handle negative feedback constructively) and how to share findings with your school community in a way that drives genuine improvement.

☑️ Worked Example: Analysing and Triangulating Survey Data – a PDF case study built around a realistic school survey scenario on behaviour, bullying and safety. It walks you through the full process of survey preparation, analysis and action planning, with realistic data and commentary so you can see exactly how to interpret results, spot patterns across stakeholder groups and decide what to do next. It can be read straight through as a learning tool or used alongside your own survey data as a reference point – useful for new leaders and experienced ones alike.

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

Who should use this Inclusion Survey Pack?

This pack is designed for headteachers, deputy heads and senior leaders who want to gather structured, meaningful feedback on inclusion from across the school community. It is particularly valuable when you are preparing for inspection, updating your self-evaluation or looking to strengthen your evidence base on how well your school meets the needs of all its pupils.

SENDCos will find it especially useful as a focused tool for gathering the views of pupils, parents and staff on SEND provision, adaptive teaching, communication and support planning. The staff survey includes specific questions about SENDCo accessibility, information-sharing and training that make it relevant for any leader reviewing the quality and reach of inclusion practice across the school.

Pastoral leaders, pupil premium leads and inclusion leads will also benefit from the targeted question bank, which covers disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing less visible barriers to learning – groups whose experiences are not always captured by more general surveys.

For trust executives and school improvement leads working across multiple schools, the structured analysis and triangulation templates make it straightforward to compare findings across settings or to support individual schools in developing a more systematic approach to gathering inclusion evidence.

How can this pack help school leaders gather meaningful feedback on inclusion?

This pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when planning and running stakeholder surveys on inclusion.

"How do we find out whether pupils actually feel included, not just whether we think they are?"

The pupil surveys are built around how pupils experience inclusion day to day – whether they feel helped in ways that work for them, whether they feel they belong, whether they feel fairly treated and whether their voice is listened to. The two versions mean you can gather meaningful responses from younger pupils and those with additional needs as well as older or more confident respondents, using language and a scale that work for each group.

"How do we hear from families of pupils with SEND or other additional needs?"

The question and statement bank includes an extensive set of targeted questions specifically for parents and carers of pupils with SEND, including questions about SENDCo contact, involvement in support planning, communication about provision and whether the school has high aspirations for their child. These can be used to adapt the parent survey or to inform more targeted conversations with specific families.

"How do I know whether staff feel equipped to meet the needs of all pupils?"

The staff survey asks directly about confidence in identifying less visible barriers, adaptive teaching, access to information about pupils' needs and support from the SENDCo and school leaders. The optional role field means you can compare responses from teaching and support staff separately, which can reveal important differences in how inclusion is experienced at different levels of the school.

"How do I compare what pupils, parents and staff are saying about inclusion?"

The Overall Summary Triangulation table in the Survey Analysis template brings findings from all three groups together in one place, using a RAG rating system to identify where views align and where they diverge. This is the kind of triangulated evidence that underpins confident self-evaluation and that inspectors look for under the 2025 Ofsted framework.

"Will this support us for Ofsted?"

Under the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, inspectors evaluate inclusion through conversations with pupils, parents and staff as well as through the school's own evidence. They look at whether all pupils – including those with SEND, disadvantaged pupils and those with other barriers to learning – are genuinely included and supported. Running your own surveys and keeping completed surveys and analysis on file means you have ready evidence that your school listens systematically to its community and acts on what it hears.

Want to build on your work on inclusive best practice?

Browse the full range of Honeyguide inclusion resources to find tools that support every stage of your self-evaluation and school improvement work in this area.

Take leadership further...

Inclusion Audit (2025)

If you are planning to survey stakeholders about inclusion, pairing this with the Inclusion Audit Pack will give you a much fuller picture. Stakeholder surveys tell you how pupils, parents and staff experience inclusion in your school but an audit goes further, helping you evaluate your policies, systems and practice against what the evidence says should be in place. Strong surveying is itself a component of a robust audit, and together the two tools provide the kind of rounded, evidence-informed self-evaluation that supports confident leadership and inspection readiness.

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