Help shape the future of overnight respite for work age adults in Cornwall

Overnight respite services provide both adults aged 18-65 with care and support needs and the people who care for them, with a short break from their normal lives which can often be quite challenging.

In Cornwall we offer a range of different overnight respite services. Usually, the respite is provided at a care home, purpose-built respite care centre or in a Shared Lives scheme.
Overnight respite plays a crucial role in helping the carer and person being cared for to continue living independently.

The Council is currently looking at how overnight respite is being delivered and would like to understand from carers and people being cared for, what their experiences of overnight respite services have been. This includes the experience of arranging overnight respite as well as what it was like being supported.

An easy read version of this survey is available. If you have any issues accessing this, please contact providerservicestransformation@cornwall.gov.uk.

Please return easy read surveys via email to: providerservicestransformation@cornwall.gov.uk or via post to: Cornwall Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, TR1 3AY - for the attention of Diana Lobb.

The survey will close on Friday 8 December at midday.

Our data protection and confidentiality statement

How will you protect my information?

Your data will be stored securely and will only be accessible by members of Care and Wellbeing. Your consent for your data to be used in the evaluation will be assumed from you starting the survey.

Who am I giving my information to?

The evaluation is being carried out by Care and Wellbeing. Please see our general privacy notice.

How will you store my personal data?

Survey responses will be collected using the Let’s Talk Cornwall survey software. By completing this survey, you consent to this transfer of your information. This includes any information which may represent your personal data. All the information you share with Care and Wellbeing will be stored safely for the duration of the evaluation. It will be destroyed one year after it has finished.

Let’s Talk Cornwall is the system used to collate the data and create reports from it. You can view the privacy statement on the Let’s Talk Cornwall website.

Co Production

Citizen Checkers completed engagement with people who rely on respite services and their families, and frontline staff, focusing on the keys of citizenship and the key lines of enquiry.

They undertake their work using employees who are experts by experience to speak to their peers and this took place through a mixture of pre advertised face to face service drop-in sessions to speak directly to service users and their families/carers, pre consent telephone conversations along with an offer of a group online meeting

The conclusion report is now available to view.