Structured Day Programme (SDPs) provides a range of interventions where a client must attend 3 – 5 days per week (minimum 16 hours a week). Interventions tend to be either a fixed rolling programme or an individual timetable, according to client need. In either case, the SDP includes the development of a care plan and regular key working sessions. The care plan should address drug and alcohol misuse, health needs, offending behaviour and social functioning.
SDPs usually offer a programme of defined activities for a fix period of time. Clients will usually attend the programme according to specified attendance criteria, and follow a set timetable that will include group work, psychosocial interventions, educational and life skill activities. Some clients maybe attending a SDP as a follow-on or a pre-cursor to other treatment types, or maybe attending as part of a criminal justice programme supervised by the probation service (e.g. DRR) or community rehabilitation.
This modality should only be used by agencies who are delivering structured day programmes as part of a commissioned service.
The modality / intervention start is the date that the client starts the programme.