FOI release

Outdoor-based therapeutic support

Case reference FOI2024/00636

Published 2 May 2024

Request

Did your Authority/ Trust/ Council/ organisation:

1.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

1.b.) Commission another person, body, or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

2.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for Children We Care For (CWCF) / Looked After Children (LAC) using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

2.b.) Commission another person, body or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for CWCF/LAC using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

Definitions of terms:

CYPP&F - children, young people, parents, or families. This can be for services targeted at any of these groups.

Outdoor Therapy provisions covers interventions such as: outdoor learning, adventure therapy, wilderness therapy, nature-based etc…

Please complete the attached response table.

Response

Did your Authority/ Trust/ Council/ organisation:

1.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

1.b.) Commission another person, body, or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic interventions to CYPP&F using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

2.a.) Deliver itself any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for Children We Care For (CWCF) / Looked After Children (LAC) using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

2.b.) Commission another person, body or organisation to deliver any specialist therapeutic residential interventions (these are for durations longer than short breaks) for CWCF/LAC using outdoor therapeutic provisions?

Definitions of terms:

CYPP&F - children, young people, parents, or families. This can be for services targeted at any of these groups.

Outdoor Therapy provisions covers interventions such as: outdoor learning, adventure therapy, wilderness therapy, nature-based etc…

Please see the attached response.

Documents

This is Herefordshire Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.

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