Virtual Wellbeing Sessions

Keywords

Virtual, Wellbeing, Sessions, Gratitude, Managing, Emotions, Background, Promotional, Material, Employees, Attended, Cost, Delivering, Internal, Programmes, Events, Budget, Spend.

Publication Number

PUB 1456

FOI Reference Number

17242

Request Title

Virtual Wellbeing Sessions

Date Range

N/A

Information Requested

In a previous FoI response [Ref: 16826] you said that you had paid for a series of Virtual Wellbeing Sessions. Could you provide me with more details on these? Specifically

1. How many employees of your force attended the sessions titled (a) Gratitude and (b) Managing Emotions.

2. Could you provide me with any background or promotional material you hold on what both of these sessions –

(a) Gratitude and

(b) Managing Emotions – were expected to provide and impart to your employee.

3. How much did these two sessions cost and who was responsible for delivering the sessions?

Disclosure with Exemptions

Full Refusal with Section 12 Exemption

Information Correct as at

27 July 2022

Date of Disclosure

29 July 2022

Related Documents/Links

N/A

FOI 17242 Response

FOI Duty  

First Duty – Essex Police holds some of the information relating to your request. 

Second Duty – See below: 

Fact - It is not possible to extract and verify all the data in your request. 

Exemption - Section 12(1) 

Reasoning – Essex Police are unable to provide information on the costing of courses.

The budgets for internal Wellbeing Programmes and Events are amongst the overall Occupational Health budgets, there is nothing specifically ring fenced for Wellbeing.  With regards to the spend, this will be from a multitude of budget areas and would be hard to ascertain without a manual trawl of the data.  To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool.  There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.

Consequently, and to this extent, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under the provisions of Section 12(1) of the FOIA.  Therefore, and in accordance with Section 17(1) of the FOIA, this communication must act as a refusal notice to provide all of the information that could be interpreted as being captured by this part of your request.

Outside of the act and in effort to assist we can provide the following -  

Caveat: Data is correct as 27/07/2022

 

1.    How many employees of your force attended the sessions titled (a) Gratitude and (b) Managing Emotions.

Wellbeing Session	Sessions Delivered	No. of Attendees*
Gratitude	6	131
Managing Emotions	3	48
*Attendees are from Essex Police and Kent Police

 2. Could you provide me with any background or promotional material you hold on what both of these sessions –

(a) Gratitude and

(b) Managing Emotions – were expected to provide and impart to your employee.

Internal communications are utilised for advertising the sessions and simple explanations of each session are published on the MS Teams invitation, website and intranet article.  Example session explanations as follows:

(a)   Gratitude: Join us for the Gratitude wellbeing session where we will be exploring the neuroscience behind mindfully practicing gratitude and the impact on your wellbeing.

(b)   Managing Emotions: Join us for a session on exploring strategies for enhancing self- awareness and emotional self-management.

 

3. How much did these two sessions cost and who was responsible for delivering the sessions?

These sessions, as part of our ongoing virtual health and wellbeing session delivery, are presented by internal staff within Health and Wellbeing Services.

You may also find the following links of interest:

Statement of Accounts - Essex Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner (pfcc.police.uk)

Occupational Health | Essex Police