The Big Conversation

The Big Conversation about social care

In Nottinghamshire, lots of people need support to live their best life. Social care is personal, emotional, and practical support for people who need it. It works alongside health care.

We know that everyone’s social care experience is different, and the system can feel complicated. We want every person in the county to live in the place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them. This vision for Adult Social Care has been developed by a national movement called Social Care Future.

In 2023, we held a Big Conversation working with an independent organisation and the Our Voice co-production group. We spoke to over 500 people in Nottinghamshire.

What they told us helped shape the 2024 Local Account, the Adult Social Care strategy, that sets out what’s working, what needs to change and what we’re focussing on next. In February 2025, we produced a Local Account Progress Report [PDF] that showed progress made so far and the impact this had on people’s lives.

Now we’re building on that work and want to know how we’re doing and what we need to do next. We want to make sure more people have a chance to be heard, especially those we didn’t hear from before.

To help us with our Big Conversation in 2025, we are working with another independent organisation Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), the National Co-production Advisory Group (NCAG) and the Nottinghamshire Our Voice strategic co-production group.

Visit the TLAP website
Read about 'Our Voice' strategic co-production group

Learn about why we’re conducting the Big Conversation and how you can get involved in these YouTube videos.

British Sign Language (BSL) video

 
How you can get involved

Survey

Tell us about your experience of adult social care by completing a survey. There are two surveys, one for people who draw on services and one for family carers. The surveys are open until midday on 13 October 2025.

Take part in survey for people who draw on social care (Microsoft Forms)
Easy Read survey for people who draw on social care [Word]

Take part in survey for family carers (Microsoft Forms)

We’ve also developed a quick, one-page feedback form as an alternative way to gather your comments. This will enable people, carers, partners and providers to record conversations and key thoughts. It will only take a few minutes to complete. Please return to nccbigconversation@nottscc.gov.uk

Download the Big Conversation feedback form [Word]

Listening events

We held listening events in all districts across Nottinghamshire during September 2025. Feedback from these events will be captured by TLAP in their analysis report to be published later in the autumn.

Further support

If you need information in a different format, such as Easy Read, or support to take part, please email us at nccbigconversation@nottscc.gov.uk or contact our Customer Service Centre. We want to make it as easy as we can for everyone to have their say.