Children and young people’s therapy services

Welcome to Children and young people’s integrated therapy service

Our children and young people’s therapy service provides occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy for children and young people in Hertfordshire. 

Have you heard of the Local Offer? If you are a young person with, or have a child with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the Local Offer is Hertfordshire's central source of information for SEND services and support.

Visit www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/localoffer for an easily accessible one-stop shop.

How the service is provided

How the service is provided

Therapy teams work with children and young people in the most appropriate setting to promote functional skills. We routinely visit early years settings, mainstream schools and specialist educational settings. Children may also be seen at home or in clinic according to clinical need.        

Multidisciplinary therapy teams are co-located in locality areas to facilitate the co-ordination of care for children, young people and their families. We have four teams across the county:

  • North Hertfordshire and Stevenage 
  • East Hertfordshire 
  • St Albans and Dacorum 
  • Watford and Three Rivers 

In addition, we have specialist occupational therapy teams who work across the county to support with home adaptations and deliver specialist moving and handling training. We have specialist speech and language therapy teams who support dysphagia (feeding and swallowing) and multidisciplinary, autism assessment pathways across Hertfordshire.

Read more about how the service will work with mainstream settings

"You said, we did" poster — Children and young people's therapy service 

Read more about how our service is evidence-based and how we work with private therapists

CYPT Integrated Therapy Service

What do you need help with?

Contact the service

To contact the children and young people's therapy (CYPT) service or to find out more about what we do:

Call: 01923 470 680, choose option 3, then option 2

Email:  hct.cyptherapies1@nhs.net

Follow us on Twitter/X:    @Herts_CYPT

Or Facebook:  facebook.com/HertsCYPT

Call our advice line: 01923 470 680, choose option3, then option 1 and leave a message.

Our advice line is a dedicated telephone number which parents, carers and professionals can call to speak to a therapist about a new referral or a child’s development. Please leave a message and a therapist will contact you. Calls are responded to by a therapist on weekdays.

We welcome feedback on how we can further improve this site for you, please contact the service using the above details or contact our communications team at hct.communications@nhs.net.