The Director of Public Health and the Senior Public Health Manager presented the Report of the Director of Care and Health which sought authorisation to tender for the development of a new offer to support children and young people in relation to health and risk-related behaviours. It was intended that the new offer would be commissioned from September 2024 and would transform support for children and young people by providing a more effective and co-ordinated approach to improve outcomes for them. It would e a more holistic approach with a five-year contract to help children and young people cope with the challenges in their life, through universal and targeted support.

Members queried the support for particular circumstances, and confirmed that there was monitoring across the borough to identify particular issues in specific areas.

Resolved – That

1.   the Director of Public Health be authorised to commence the commissioning of risk taking/health related behaviours offer for children and young people. This will be for a contract period of five years (1st September 2024 – 31st August 2029) with the option of two one-year extensions in accordance with the spend profile in paragraph 4.5 of this report.

2.   delegated authority be given to the Director of Public Health to award the tender to the successful bidder following the tender process.