On 29^th November 2022, the Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee authorised the Director of Public Health to recommission Information and Advice Services in Wirral. At this Committee, delegated authority was given to the Director of Public Health to award the tender to the successful bidder following the tender process. This report provides an update on the recommissioning process and outcome.

The process has concluded, the tenders received have been fully evaluated according to Council procurement rules and the Director of Public Health will take the decision to award the contract to the successful bidder Wirral Citizen’s Advice Bureau.

Current commissioning arrangements expire at the end of the financial year 2023/24. Good information and advice services are an important component of overall health and wellbeing, and a pillar of wider work to reduce health inequalities in Wirral.

The report supports the implementation of the Wirral Plan 2021 – 26 priorities, Brighter Futures and Active and Healthy Lives and Wirral’s Health and Wellbeing Strategy and its core purpose to improve equity for people and place through the provision of a Wirral-wide service that directly supports people in need.