Outdoor-based therapeutic support
Case reference FOI2024/00484
Published 25 March 2024
Request
I am making this request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Information obtained from the request will feed into research on outdoor-based therapeutic support on offer through English Local Authorities, to vulnerable children and families in their care.
Please could you provide me with data for the following financial years on the table attached to this email:
● 1st April 2021- 31st March 2022*
● 1st April 2022 - 31st March 2023*
*Please state if the information you provide uses a different financial year reporting period.
This request only concerns services for children, young people, parents or families (CYPP&F) relating to 'Children's Social Care' interventions. Please do not supply data from services that are offered as part of education provisions (Mainstream schooling, Alternative Education Provisions, Special Schools etc..). Where a 'Child We Care For' (CWCF)/ 'Looked After Child' (LAC) is placed in a residential care setting with incorporated education, this should be counted and included in your return.
The population that this request is interested in:
The information that I am requesting directly relates to the vulnerable children, young people, parents and families you support. These children, young people, parents or families are likely to be supported where you have a duty under (primarily, but not limited to) the Children's Act 1989 or The Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005, where you must provide appropriate services for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting their welfare. Examples of services in your organisation where this may happen could be Children's Social Care, Youth Justice, Early Intervention, Children We Care For Teams/ Looked After Child Teams, post adoption support, etc.
The request has four areas of interest:
1.a) Outdoor Therapeutic Services not part of a residential care setting, delivered internally.
1.b) Outdoor Therapeutic Services not part of a residential care setting, that you have commissioned.
2.a) Outdoor Therapeutic Services that are part of a residential care setting, delivered internally.
2.b) Outdoor Therapeutic Services that are part of a residential care setting, that you have commissioned.
Response
I am making this request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Information obtained from the request will feed into research on outdoor-based therapeutic support on offer through English Local Authorities, to vulnerable children and families in their care.
Please could you provide me with data for the following financial years on the table attached to this email:
● 1st April 2021- 31st March 2022*
● 1st April 2022 - 31st March 2023*
*Please state if the information you provide uses a different financial year reporting period.
This request only concerns services for children, young people, parents or families (CYPP&F) relating to 'Children's Social Care' interventions. Please do not supply data from services that are offered as part of education provisions (Mainstream schooling, Alternative Education Provisions, Special Schools etc..). Where a 'Child We Care For' (CWCF)/ 'Looked After Child' (LAC) is placed in a residential care setting with incorporated education, this should be counted and included in your return.
The population that this request is interested in:
The information that I am requesting directly relates to the vulnerable children, young people, parents and families you support. These children, young people, parents or families are likely to be supported where you have a duty under (primarily, but not limited to) the Children's Act 1989 or The Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005, where you must provide appropriate services for the purpose of safeguarding and promoting their welfare. Examples of services in your organisation where this may happen could be Children's Social Care, Youth Justice, Early Intervention, Children We Care For Teams/ Looked After Child Teams, post adoption support, etc.
The request has four areas of interest:
1.a) Outdoor Therapeutic Services not part of a residential care setting, delivered internally.
1.b) Outdoor Therapeutic Services not part of a residential care setting, that you have commissioned.
2.a) Outdoor Therapeutic Services that are part of a residential care setting, delivered internally.
2.b) Outdoor Therapeutic Services that are part of a residential care setting, that you have commissioned.
Answer: This information is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
It would take 30 minutes minimum per child placed in residential setting to ascertain the information that is being requested. This would at a conservative estimate take at least 21 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
If you wish to redefine or narrow down your request please do so, and we can look again at whether this could be provided to you within the reasonable limit.
Documents
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