Health and social work services

Tender description

Telford and Wrekin Council procured 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (HCP). Key strategic aims of this procurement and subsequent service are: — to improve health and well-being outcomes and reduce inequalities for children, young people and families through the delivery of the HCP (0-19 years) service as an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting and empowering children and families, — to work in partnership with partner agencies and communities to respond to varying local needs across the HCP domains. The service will identify needs early and provide the appropriate tailored support (e.g. HCP service, voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, health improvement team) in a timely manner in order to prevent needs from escalating therefore reducing demand on specialist provision, — to provide expert advice, guidance and support to ensure that every child gets the best start they need to lay the foundations of a healthy life, — to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families and reduce inequalities between families in greatest need and their peers in: — child development and school readiness, — parenting aspirations and parenting skills, and — child and family health and life chances. This procurement was for social and other specific services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Accordingly the Council followed a process based on the principles of transparency. The Council treated all economic operators equally and in a non-discriminatory way.