H.1 / Do any of the adults in your household attend adult education or training classes? (N = 1076)
Yes / 204 / No / 872
H.2 / If "no", why not?
Too expensive / 53 / Can't access the building / 3 / Not interested / 326
Classes not appropriate / 169 / Can't get there / 21 / No childcare available / 31
Don't know what's on / 66 / Other / 166 / (N = 748)
H.3 / Do you have children of pre-school age? (N = 1105)
Yes / 102 / No / 1003
H.4 / If "yes", do they/will they attend Barrow playgroups?
Yes / 82 / No / 32
H.5 / If "no", what changes might encourage you to send them to the Barrow playgroups? Please explain. N=13
1 More modern facilities / - -%
2 More modern equipment / - -%
3 Availab;e places / 1 .1%
4 Transport to get there/too far to walk / - -%
5 Cost issues / - -%
6 Safety issues / - -%
7 Time to take children / 1 .1%
8 Full day provision for working parents / 7 .6%
50 Other / 4 .3%
These include:
• I didn’t want to go on my own, I didn’t know anyone
Comments from O.1/O.2 - nil
H.6 / Do you have children of primary school age? (N = 1093)Yes / 147 / No /
H.7 / If "yes", do they attend Hall Orchard School? (N = 164)
Yes / 135 / No / 29
H.8 / If "yes", what is your opinion of Hall Orchard School? (N = 152)
Excellent / 48 / Very good / 60 / Good / 30 / Just acceptable / 8 / Poor 6
H.9 / Any other comments about Hall Orchard School? N=87
1 Need to improve the building / 6 .5%
2 Needs more funding / 9 .8%
3 Needs to have car parking for parents transporting children / 4 .3%
4 PTA could organise walking buses for children/ cut
down traffic / - -%
5 Footpath by school needs keeping clean / 2 .2%
6 Need to avoid increased class sizes / 11 .9%
7 Security is poor / 10 .8%
8 Toilets are dreadful / 1 .1%
9 After school club is good / 2 .2%
10 Stop taking pupils from other villages, reduce class sizes
and traffic / 11 .9%
11 Excellent - very good school / 22 1.8%
12 Encourage competitive sports / 5 .4%
50 Other / 32 2.7%
These include:
• Breaktime supervision is poor
• Bullying policy needs revisiting
• Concerned about the sale of unhealthy/junk food
• I hear stories from my child of non-white children being picked on. I want the school to fight this.
• Not enough communication with parents
• Oversubscribed
• provide more stuff in the playgrounds to play on
• School meals not very good
• Standards have fallen
• Uniform should be compulsory
• Very good ‘family’ feeling, don’t want to lose this
• Very poor for special needs
Comments from O.1/O.2
H.9 Security concerns at hall Orchard SchoolH.9 The Hall Orchard - paper/dog fouling, hedge clippings left on the ground etc., there is a slight improvement lately.
H.9 Children are overweight, unfit and over protected. Hall Orchard doesn`t encourage competitive sport.
H.10 / Do you have children of High School age? (N = 1079)
Yes / 110 / 969
H.11 / If "yes", do they attend Humphrey Perkins School?
Yes / 85 / No / 43
H.12 / If "yes", what is your opinion of Humphrey Perkins School? (N = 103)
Excellent / 8 / Very good / 24 / Good / 35 / Just acceptable / 25 / Poor 11
H.13 / Any other comments about Humphrey Perkins School? N=68
1 School buildings need upgrading / 3 .3%
2 School buildings dirty / 2 .2%
3 Pupils behave poorly on school buses / 3 .3%
4 Some pupils behave in intimidating way on High Street/North St
at end of day / 6 .5%
5 School no longer has contact with community / 4 .3%
6 School no longer welcomes community / 5 .4%
7 The use of buildings by community becoming more and
more restricted / 5 .4%
8 Community lounge and facilities being used more and
more by school / 1 .1%
9 Class size too big / 2 .2%
10 Too much litter / 5 .4%
11 Unmade road to George 1V field should be surfaced / - -%
12 Good prospectus / 1 .1%
13 Too many poor teachers / 2 .2%
14 Spend more money on education/trained teachers not
teaching assistants / 2 .2%
15 Excellent, very good school / 6 .5%
16 Youth group facilities a disgrace. It has gone/how is
school allowed to do this? / 3 .3%
17 Poor discipline / 5 .4%
18 Need streaming to help those willing to learn / - -%
27 Why no strict uniform / 1 .1%
28 Could they encourage good manners and conduct / 9 .8%
29 Needs a Head who is willing to be more involved with
the community / 2 .2%
30 Needs a safe crossing to Beacon Field / 1 .1%
31 Bullying / 1 .1%
32 Present reputation not a recommendation for serious
students / 6 .5%
50 Other / 22 1.8%
These include:
• Daytime truanting is worrying
• Drug abuse needs stricter control
• Good special needs
• Low standards
• New canteen is good
• Noise and traffic at end of school day is very bad
• Not enough homework
• Poor management
• Problems with bullying
• Seem inaccessible to parents, our concerns are being ignored
• Shame we can’t walk through it anymore
• Teachers don’t listen to parents or pupils
• Teachers victimise some groups of children
• The school seems to be getting less and less community minded
• Wastes money on inappropriate things
Comments from O.1/O.2
H.13 - Escorts on Humphrey Perkins busesH.13 / H.17 3 - 4 - provide school bus to and from Quorn especially in Winter
H.13 Do they do evening classes in Barrow, not just men`s keep fit, also w/e?
H.13 evening programme and access to Humphrey Perkins gets less and less.
H.13 Improve HP swimming pool
H.13 Swimming pool should be open to public more often.
H.14 / Do you have children of Upper School age? (N = 1068)
Yes / 105 / No / 903
H.15 / If "yes", do they attend Rawlins School? (N = 120)
Yes / 75 / No / 45
H.16 / If "yes", what is your opinion of Rawlins School? (N = 87)
Excellent / 6 / Very good / 20 / Good / 40 / Just acceptable / 16
Poor / 5
H.17 / Any other comments about Rawlins School? N=40
1 Building needs to be refurbished / 1 .1%
2 Less friendly than Humphrey Perkins / - -%
3 Difficult to contact staff if there is a problem / 2 .2%
4 Could they encourage good manners and conduct / 4 .3%
5 Why no uniform / 3 .3%
6 Should be an 11-18 school / 1 .1%
25 pupil behaviour at bus stop is appalling / 1 .1%
32 Pool very good ie daytime swimming for adults / - -%
50 Other / 30 2.5%
These include:
• Authoritarian
• Good if children are prepared to work, only interested in high achievers
• Low standards
• Many occasions when teachers don’t turn up for 6th form students
• Need special buses, the pubic buses are always full
• Poor behaviour of pupils
• Worried about drugs
Comments from O.1/O.2 - nil
H.18 / Does your household use Barrow Library? (N = 1118)Yes / 590 / No / 528
H.19 / Which of the following (largely free) library services does your family use?
Yes / No / Don't need it
Borrowing books / 550 / 61 / 36 (N = 647)
Borrowing CDs / 59 / 234 / 65 (N = 358)
Free computer use for internet, emails and word processing / 91 / 180 / 115 (N = 386)
Reference facilities / 254 / 146 / 47 (N = 447)
Searching for and provision of information / 230 / 153 / 53 (N = 436)
H.20 / What changes would encourage you to use the library more? N=155
1 Open more often / 72 6.1%
2 Open at lunchtime open after work / 3 .3%
3 Open Monday morning / - -%
4 Open Monday Lunchtime / - -%
5 Open Tuesday morning / 1 .1%
6 Open Tuesday lunchtime / - -%
7 Open Tuesday afternoon / - -%
8 Open Tuesday evening / 1 .1%
9 Open Wednesday lunchtime / - -%
10 Open Wednesdat evening / 1 .1%
11 Open Thursday morning / 1 .1%
12 Open Thursday lunchtime / - -%
13 Open Thursday afternoon / 1 .1%
14 Open Thursday evening / - -%
15 Open Friday lunchtime / - -%
16 Open Saturday afternoon / 4 .3%
17 Have greater range of fiction / 29 2.4%
18 Have great range of up-to-date non fiction / 27 2.3%
19 Have more maps / 2 .2%
20 Have more travel books / 2 .2%
21 Have more internet connections / 3 .3%
22 Have more videos and cassettes and CDs/DVDs / 13 1.1%
23 Have more talking books / 1 .1%
24 Have more large print books / 1 .1%
25 Need more services for senior citizens / - -%
31 Needs more advertising, forget it's there / 11 .9%
32 Heating and lighting needs attention / - -%
33 Needs an extension to provide area for
speakers storytime / 6 .5%
50 Other / 55 4.6%
These include:
• Advertise itself, we forget its there
• Better info about opening hours
• Better parking
• Delivery service
• Loan of OS maps
• More desks and chairs
• Private study area
• Quicker change over of staock
• Separate the books and the computers
• The staff are great
Comments from O.1/O.2 - nil
H.21 / Does your household have access to all the IT/communications facilities it wants? (public and private)Yes / No / Don't need it / N =
Good broadband internet access / 490 / 196 / 271 / 957
Good telephone connections / 977 / 24 / 30 / 1031
Good reception for digital radio / 434 / 100 / 368 / 902
Good reception for Freeview TV / 440 / 154 / 330 / 924
Good reception for satellite TV / 371 / 62 / 479 / 912
Good reception for mobile telephones / 689 / 231 / 95 / 1015
Good access to public computing / 235 / 72 / 600 / 907
H.22 / Would anyone in your household be prepared to install or run greater public access to computing resources in Barrow? (N= 1031)
Yes / 19 / No / 1012
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H.23 / Would anyone in your household be prepared to help with the Barrow website? (N = 1000)
Yes / 41 / No / 959
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