Provision of Halton 0-19 (+025 SEND) Healthy Child Programme

Concepts

• health services
• widnes
• child health
• healthy child programme
• healthy child
• halton borough council
• the healthy child programme
• an effective healthy child programme
• other child and family services
• (+025 send) healthy child programme

Location

East Merseyside:

Description

The 0-19 (+25 SEND) Healthy Child Programme, integrated Public Health Nursing Service will provide clinical leadership, co-ordination, and delivery of the Healthy Child Programme 0-19 (+25) HCP in the Halton Borough Council. The service will be led by health visitors and school nurses working in partnership with a range of professionals and agencies to support children and families and to deliver the Healthy Child Programme. Health visitors and School Nurses will be specialist community public health nurse (SCPHN); they will be registered nurses or midwives who has undertaken a year's further post registration training in child health, health promotion, public health, and education. Health Visitors and School Nurses will provide place-based services and work in partnership with education, LAs, health and other key partners where needed to deliver an effective Healthy Child programme for prevention and support. The service will work alongside other child and family services who will be delivering other Public Health elements of the Healthy Child Programme. As an essential part of the children's services 'system', the Service will make a major contribution to the Halton Borough Council Children and Young People's Improvement Plan ambitions by improving health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people, identifying additional needs early, building resilience and reducing health inequalities by providing effective universal and targeted interventions for children, young people and their parents.

Total Quantity or Scope

Halton Borough Council intends to award a contract to an existing provider following Direct Award Process C under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

The Contract Period is 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2030, with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Legal Justification

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representatives by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on Friday 28th February 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under Provider Selection Regime (PSR).

Other Information

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