MEASURING THE MOUNTAIN: SENSEMAKER

Measuring the Mountain is a Welsh Government funded project looking at people’s experience of social care. It’s an all-Wales collaboration of the public sector, third sector and, most importantly, the people who live here.

We want to know more about what it is like to be:

• A carer looking after a loved one, family member, friend or neighbour

• Someone who needs care and support

We want to know about one of your experiences from the last 12 months and your thoughts about that experience. We are interested in all kinds of experiences so that we can understand the early impact of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014. We recognise that social care relates to many different aspects of a person’s life, so please feel free to tell us about community activities, health matters, housing etc.

On the next page you will share your experience and then answer some questions about it. Completing the survey takes about 10 minutes.

Experiences can be just a few lines or a paragraph or two, and you can share as many of them as you would like with us. They don’t need to be about anything particularly good or bad. There may be an experience that stands out for you, or you might like to share something that happened recently and is fresh in your mind.

By sharing this information with us, you will be helping to inform Welsh Government, social care professionals and others about what social care is like for people, what works well and what could be done differently. We will share all our findings, conclusions and recommendations through reports, events and the website, as well as directly with Welsh Government.

We take your privacy seriously and won’t be able to identify you from the information you provide; to help with this, we ask that you do not use real names in your story.

You may choose to share a negative story, but this is not the right place to tell us about abuse or criminal activity, if you are experiencing abuse or are the victim of crime, please report this to the police on 101, or 999 if it is an emergency.