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

Concepts

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

Location

WIDNES

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.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Other Information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under 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. This contract has now been formally awarded using direct award Process C. Contract date of award - 4th March 2025 Contract start date: 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2030, with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods. Total Contract Value: £25,050,368.