Hear every voice – and turn responses into useful insight.
Create and distribute surveys and questionnaires for pupils, parents and carers, staff, governors and other stakeholders. Across your trust, school or learning organisation Flourish brings response tracking, contextual analysis, comparisons and reporting together so feedback can inform real decisions rather than disappear in a separate system or spreadsheet.
See Surveys & Stakeholder Voice in practice
Survey builder and template question banks
Share surveys by email invite, QR and URL
Analyse by audience, question type, response, and more
The challenge is moving from collected opinions to confident decisions
Schools gather a great deal of feedback, but designing good surveys, reaching the right people and analysing responses over time can require significant manual work.
Survey design takes too long
Leaders often start from a blank page or reuse inconsistent questions, making it difficult to compare feedback across audiences or over time.
Distribution can be awkward
Links, paper copies, reminders and response tracking may be managed separately, creating unnecessary administration.
Context is easily lost
A single average can hide important differences between year groups, roles, schools or other relevant respondent groups.
Results become isolated snapshots
Feedback is often reviewed once and filed away, rather than compared with previous surveys or connected to improvement work.
What effective stakeholder voice looks like
Effective surveys begin with a clear purpose, use language suited to the audience and balance confidentiality with enough context to understand what responses mean.
Starts with a clear question
Leaders are explicit about what they need to understand and how the findings may be used.
Uses accessible, audience-specific language
Questions and answer options reflect the age, role and experience of the people responding.
Collects useful context carefully
Contextual questions support meaningful analysis without asking for unnecessary personal information or undermining anonymity.
Combines quantitative and qualitative insight
Scaled responses, choices, rankings and free text work together to explain both the pattern and the reasons behind it.
Compares feedback over time
Repeated surveys use consistent questions where appropriate so leaders can see whether perceptions are changing.
Leads to visible action
Key findings inform QA, self-evaluation and development planning, and stakeholders can be told what will happen next.
How Flourish supports this work
Flourish makes it easier to create, distribute and analyse surveys for different stakeholder groups. Reusable question banks and connected reporting reduce setup time while preserving the flexibility to ask what matters locally.
Question banks and survey templates
Start with reusable questions organised by audience and theme, then adapt them for the purpose and context of each survey.
Audience-appropriate surveys
Create distinct experiences for parents and carers, pupils at different key stages, staff, governors or other groups.
Flexible question types
Use scaled questions, free text, single or multiple choice, rankings and “select the most important” formats where they add value.
Simple external distribution
Share surveys through invites, direct links or QR codes so respondents can take part from any device.
Anonymity, context and response tracking
Use anonymous surveys by default where appropriate, add carefully chosen contextual questions and monitor response rates as the survey runs.
Comparisons and wider insight
Compare repeated surveys, analyse themes and respondent groups, and use trust or external benchmarks where they are available and appropriate.
Stakeholder voice becomes more useful when it informs wider evaluation
Flourish helps survey findings contribute to the organisation’s evidence base rather than remaining in a separate reporting file.
- Survey findings can support SEF judgements and evidence statements.
- Themes can inform QA activity, staff development or development-plan priorities.
- Repeated surveys can be reviewed alongside other evidence to understand change over time.
Reporting and Insight
Move beyond a headline average. Understand response rates, distributions, themes, differences between groups and change across repeated surveys.
Monitor participation while the survey is live
See total responses and response rates by audience, route, school or other available context so reminders can be targeted appropriately.
Understand what respondents are saying
Review scaled results, response distributions and free-text themes to identify strengths, concerns and areas that need further exploration.
Compare surveys across time and settings
Place repeated survey runs side by side, recognise questions that changed and see where perceptions are improving, declining or remaining stable.
Explore the meaning behind the headline
Filter results by relevant contextual information and compare with trust or wider benchmarks where suitable data is available.
Designed for schools, colleges and trusts
Run locally relevant surveys while retaining the consistency needed for comparison across schools, phases, audiences and time.
For schools and colleges
Create surveys quickly, share them without accounts, monitor participation and turn the results into clear evidence for leadership, governors and improvement work.
For trusts and groups
Use shared surveys and question sets across schools, compare outcomes while retaining school-level context, and identify trust-wide strengths or concerns that require coordinated action.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do parents, pupils or governors need a Flourish account?
No. External respondents can access a survey through a link or QR code without logging into the Flourish platform.
Can surveys be anonymous?
Yes. Surveys can be anonymous where appropriate, with optional contextual questions designed to support analysis without unnecessarily identifying respondents.
Can we compare the same survey over time?
Yes. Repeated survey runs can be compared side by side, while clearly identifying questions that were not included in every run.
Can a trust compare results across schools?
Yes. Shared surveys can support group-level comparison, with filters and drill-down helping leaders retain the context behind each school’s results.
Do you have surveys we can use?
Yes. We have a bank of over 40 surveys and 1600 questions you can use as you need them. Questions are categorised into key topics and can be tailored to suit your organisation.
See how Flourish can make stakeholder voice easier to gather, understand and act upon. Book a short online demonstration.
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