Had fun with these packs? Have suggestions for how they could be made better?Tell us! We are offering a second, different activity pack to the first 100 families who share a photo or written description of how they’ve used the activities with their child.

Playful Packs Feedback Participant Information

Who can take part, and what does it involve?

Parents or carers who have been given an activity pack as part of the Playful Packs project are invited by researchers from the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University to share their experiences and opinions about the packs. This information page explains how to provide feedback and what will happen to the information you provide. Please read it carefully and email the team at babylabscommunitypartnership@psy.ox.ac.uk if you have any queries before completing the questionnaire.

Feedback can be written, or via photos of the activity pack being used. As well as your feedback we will ask you 3 background information questions (your postcode, highest education level, and your child’s age), and for some contact details. Your contact details are used to send you a voucher for the next activity pack, and so that we know which information to delete if you did decide to withdraw your data. The background information is collected so we can make sure we are gathering feedback from all groups in society. You can choose which details you provide, they are not compulsory for taking part. The whole process should take about 10 minutes to complete.

Do I have to take part?

No. Participation is voluntary. You may withdraw at any point for any reason before submitting your response by pressing the ‘Exit’ button or closing the browser. If you wish to withdraw after submitting your response you may do so by emailing babylabscommunitypartnership@psy.ox.ac.uk. You do not need to give any explanation for your withdrawal. We will ensure your data is removed from all our databases and any photos or quotes are removed from the website within 3 working days of receipt of the request. However, once content has been put online other people may make a copy, so only submit images and feedback that you are happy to share publicly. One of the aims of the project is to identify themes in the written and photo feedback. Once we have identified these themes it will not be possible to remove your contribution, although the source information will be deleted as described above.

What feedback can I share?

We would like you to know your experiences and opinions about the activity pack. You could tell us this in words in the text box part of the online survey or in pictures, by uploading between 1 and 5 pictures of the packs being used. In particular, we would love to see how you and your child have adapted the activity ideas. Please only include photos of yourself or your own child: we cannot accept images of children that you do not have parental responsibility for.

What happens to my feedback?

We will catalogue the feedback contributions and make them publicly available on our project website. Contributions may also be used in a range of public outputs such as conferences, publications, media articles and on social media channels. Your contributions and de-identified background information will be stored on a secure server at the University of Oxford.

Pros and cons of taking part

If you are within the first 100 families to provide feedback you will receive a voucher for a second activity pack. If you provide feedback after we have received 100 responses, we will provide a link (either via email or via the practitioner who gave you the first pack) to other activity ideas. A possible disadvantage of taking part if that you and your child may be identifiable in the photos that you submit. It is completely up to you whether you share these photos and agree to us using them as described above.

What about confidentiality?

Your personal data will be kept confidential, with the exception of the photos which you choose to submit. You and your child will not be named in any public outputs.

Data protection

Your IP address (location data for your computer) will not be stored. We will collect your postcode which is data that could identify you. There is the option not to provide this if you prefer. The postcode is used to calculate social and economic information about the area corresponding to the postcode. This calculation will be made and it will be the number produced by the calculation, rather than the postcode, that is stored on research files. The full postcode will be deleted from the original record as soon as this calculation has been done.

The research team are the moderators of this site and control all the data that is uploaded to it. They will remove any data upon request within 3 working days of such a request being made. You have the option of sharing photos that do not include the faces of you and/or you child or blurring them out either with photo-editing tools or by adding an emoji to cover faces if you prefer. These images and the written feedback may be used in academic publications, conference presentations, and reports to the project funders.

All consent, contact and demographic information that you provide will be stored in a password-protected electronic file on University of Oxford secure servers. Your contact details will be stored separately from your background information and feedback. Your contact details will be deleted once the research is published, unless you provide additional consent for us to store it for a longer period. If you give permission for retention, we will keep a copy of your content form with this database, as your consent is our legal basis for re-contacting you under UK data protection law. Your feedback (photos or comments) will be stored for 3 years after publication or public release of the work of the research. The University of Oxford is the data controller with respect to your personal data and, as such, will determine how your personal data is used in the study. The University will process your personal data for the purpose of the research outlined above. Research is a task that we perform in the public interest. Further information about your rights with respect to your personal data is available from https://compliance.admin.ox.ac.uk/individual-rights.

Who to contact if you have a concern or wish to complain

If you have a concern about any aspect of this study, please speak to Dr Alexandra Hendry (alexandra.hendry@psy.ox.ac.uk). She will acknowledge your concern within 10 working days and give you an indication of how it will be dealt with. If you remain unhappy or wish to make a formal complaint, please contact the Chair of the Medical Sciences Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee at the University of Oxford who will seek to resolve the matter as soon as possible: Email: ethics@medsci.ox.ac.uk; Address: Research Services, University of Oxford, Boundary Brook House, Churchill Drive, OX3 7GB.

This project has been reviewed by, and received ethics clearance through, a subcommittee of the University of Oxford Central University Research Ethics Committee (R83430/RE001).

The National Literacy Trust is a registered charity no. 1116260 (England and Wales) and SC042944 (Scotland). Home-Start UK is a charitable company limited by guarantee. Charity no. in England and Wales 1108837 and in Scotland SC039172. Company no. 5382181. Peeple is a registered charity no. 1144975 in England / Wales and no. SCO44031 in Scotland, and a company limited by guarantee no. 7514469.