The survey is open to CLD practitioners, employers, stakeholders and volunteers.
The purpose of the survey is to capture workforce data, building on what we found in the last survey conducted in 2018.
Please complete the survey
The survey includes topics on staff and volunteer numbers, focus on CLD activities, qualifications, career plans, and challenges for the CLD workforce. It should develop important insights to help us better understand and support the workforce moving forward.
Communications regarding the survey will come from Rocket Science – the organisation we’ve commissioned to run the survey.
And please share the survey with your networks – the more responses, the more we will know.
The survey will be open for around 8 weeks closing at the end of February, please complete as soon as possible for your responses to be counted.
When completing the survey, you will be asked to select one of the following options:
- Paid CLD practitioner
- CLD volunteer
- Organisation that employs or manages CLD practitioners
- Organisation with an interest in CLD , e.g. college, university, training provider
You may complete the survey more than once if you represent more than one category.
Please see the PDF of the survey questions.
DOWNLOAD: CLD Workforce Survey Questions 2026 (PDF)
PDF page numbers for each set of questions:
- Organisation that employs or manages CLD practitioners: Pages 4–23
- CLD practitioner: Pages 24–41
- Stakeholder organisation: Pages 42–48
- CLD volunteer: Pages 49–62
If you have any questions, please contact Jamal Hassan, Rocket Science Research Consultant –jamal.hassan@rocketsciencelab.co.uk