We want your views to help shape what we do. Sometimes we'll ask you for your feedback about a service or ideas for improving or changing a service through an engagement survey. Our live engagement surveys are below.
To ensure wide participation in our surveys and consultations, particularly when the topic matter is complex, we offer ‘in-person drop-in’ events and online webinars so that residents and stakeholders can meet the team, find out more about the subject, ask questions, and seek clarification before completing and submitting their response.
Times, dates, and locations for these events are published with the survey/consultation. Bookings and email addresses are required (so we know who to send the link to) for the online events that are held on MS Teams. You can drop into the in-person events at any time during the published times. We try to arrange the sessions at different times (daytime and evening) to suit people's availability. Please check the Engagement Surveys page for information about events and webinars.
SEND Leisure Activities Survey (short breaks)
We're reviewing these and would appreciate your feedback.
Tell us your thoughts about SEND leisure activities
To give parents, carers and young people an opportunity to share their views around our short break leisure activities offer, we will be holding engagement events across the following localities in June:
Parent/carer focus groups
Where: Dunstable Children’s Centre, Downside Neighbourhood Centre, Oakwood Avenue, Dunstable, LU5 4AS
Date: Friday 13 June
Time: 12:30pm until 1:30pm
Where: Leighton Buzzard Children's Centre, East Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1EW
Date: Wednesday 18 June
Time: 6:30pm until 7:30pm
Where: Sandy Children's Centre, Laburnum Road, Sandy, SG19 1HQ
Date: Thursday 26 June
Time: 12:30pm until 1:30pm
Where: Microsoft Teams
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 12:30pm until 1:30pm
How to sign up for a focus group
To attend one of these focus groups, please email childrenscommissioningenquiries@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk with the following information:
- your name
- email address
- name of the event you wish to attend (e.g. Leighton Buzzard Children’s Centre)
- number of tickets required (maximum of 2 per household due to room capacity)
Town centre reviews
We're working with People and Places Insight and the respective town councils to review the town centres for Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, Houghton Regis, Flitwick, Biggleswade, Ampthill and Sandy.
Rate Houghton Regis town centre
Rate Leighton Buzzard town centre
The results will be used in a variety of ways, including developing regeneration projects, attracting funding, measuring the impact of events and festivals, creating town centre partnerships, planning projects and promoting investment.
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