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Healthy Child Programme - 5-19 Years Old

Meeting: 10/10/2013 - Cabinet (Item 77)

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Minutes:

The Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing introduced a report by the Director of Public Health / Head of Policy and Performance which highlighted current provision for the delivery of the Healthy Child programme for 5-19 year olds in Wirral and presented a rationale to develop and commission an integrated service model. An effective healthy child programme was one way of ensuring that children and their families got the right support at the right time. The responsibility for the commissioning of the healthy child programme for 5-19 year olds now lay with the Council, following the transfer of the public health function.

 

The aim of the re-commissioned model would be to ensure that commissioned services were intervening as early as possible to prevent problems developing and escalating. There was also the opportunity to reflect the new approach developing in the Children and Young People’s team in the service model to ensure services were fit for purpose and providing the best outcomes for local children and young people.

 

There was also the opportunity to undertake a joint procurement process with NHS England who were re-commissioning the Healthy Child Programme for 0-5 year olds to deliver economies of scale and integrated services.

 

The report provided an overview of proposed areas to be included in the new model, finer details of these would be specified following extensive consultation with key stakeholders, including young people and their families.

 

RESOLVED: That

 

(1)  officers be authorised to commence the re-commissioning process to enable the development of an integrated healthy child programme for 5-19 year olds; and

 

(2)  a joint procurement process with NHS England for the healthy child programme for 0-5 year olds be supported; and

 

(3)  Cabinet receive a report on the outcomes of the tendering exercise for final decision on the awarding of the contract(s) for the Healthy Child Programme for 5-19 year olds.