Health services

Tender description

For the avoidance of doubt this is not a Call for Competition — this is to initiate a Market Engagement/ Soft Market Testing process. Staffordshire County Council (SCC) wishes to redesign and begin to integrate its 0-5 years offer to secure effective delivery and outcome achievement for all families. The universal reach of the National Healthy Child Programme provides an invaluable opportunity from early in a child's life to identify families that are in need of additional support, and children who are at risk of poor outcomes. SCC is seeking to support collaborative working and more integrated commissioning/delivery particularly across Families and Communities (Children's Centres and Public Health). An integrated universal approach will mean providing some intervention for everyone, by a variety of mechanisms, using this to find those who need a higher level of support and providing extra support at intensity according to need. Greater resources will be targeted to those at risk, vulnerable and/or experiencing difficulties. The scope of this Programme will include the commissioning of the National Healthy Child Programme (0-5 years) and potentially Staffordshire County Council's Children's Centre statutory responsibilities. The specific aims of the new Staffordshire Child Health and Well-being Programme (0-5 years) will be: 1. To provide prevention, early help and deliver targeted interventions, to those most in need, at risk and vulnerable; 2. To build community and family capacity so that they are better able to help themselves; 3. To support parents with the transition to parenthood by promoting good parenting skills and family support; 4. To improve early years' outcomes through targeting pregnancy and postnatal mental health, secure attachment, breastfeeding, nutrition and exercise, managing minor illness, communication and school readiness; 5. To improve social and emotional well-being through strengthening the resilience of children, young people and families; 6. To deliver full population coverage and scope of the Healthy Child Programme (0-5 years); 7. To use evidence based tools, assessments and interventions to provide effective information and advice to support self-help and well-being; 8. To safeguard and protect children and young people from harm, from preventative to specialist input (including accident prevention); 9. To meet SCC's statutory requirements for Children's Centres. The current contracts that are in place for the delivery of these Services through children's centres and health visitors come to an end in 2017 and the current contract for Staffordshire's school nursing services breaks in 2018. The estimated annual budget to invest in a Child Health and Well-being Programme (0-5 years) is 8 900 000 GBP. The County Council also wishes to obtain feedback on the possibility of bringing together the Healthy Child Programme across 0-19 years in the future. As part of the market engagement process, an event will be held to obtain feedback from interested bidders to help shape the model and future provision. The event will be held at 10:00 on Thursday, 12.5.2016 at the Kingston Centre, Fairway, Stafford, ST16 3TW. There will also be a Soft Market Testing Questionnaire which will shortly be issued for interested bidders to complete which will provide the opportunity to input into the model and shape the future specification. Interested bidders are asked to register on the E-tendering Alito system below and a notification will be issued when the Soft Market Testing Questionnaire is available. To participate in this process we would like to invite organisations interested in this opportunity to: — Register an expression of interest, using the contract reference number SCHPH00175 for this procurement process on our E-tendering Alito system http://www.staffordshire.alito.co.uk/ — Email sarah.lynn@staffordshire.gov.uk to request a place at the event on Thursday, 12.5.2016. An agenda for the event will be sent out week commencing 9.5.2016.