Health and social work services

Tender description

Giving every child the best start in life in a priority for Solihull Council. To achieve this, we need high quality services that work for and with families. Our vision is for a service that is child and family focused and aims to deliver the national priorities for families to have a healthy pregnancy, for children to be ready to learn at 2, ready for school at 5, experience good emotional well-being and mental health and be a healthy weight. The programme will operate on 4 levels of increasing need (community, universal, universal plus and universal partnership plus), deliver 8 universal health checks (antenatal check, 10-14 days after birth, 6-8 weeks, 12 month check, 2-2½ year check, school entry, Year 6-7 transition and mid-teen review) and address 10 areas of high impact (including parenting, nutrition and emotional well-being). The Solihull Healthy Child Programme vision is: — A service that is child and family focused; — Early identification of families experiencing lower level problems before they escalate; — Integrated with other parts of Solihull's early help system, e.g. Engage; — Integrated pathways to enable fast access to specialist services. The scope of the service includes the following: — Health Visiting — leading the Healthy Child Programme from pregnancy to age 5 — Healthy Start Vitamins Scheme — organising the promotion, direct supply and wider distribution of Healthy Start vitamins — Infant Feeding — a specialist team to encourage mothers to breastfeed and provide expert guidance on infant nutrition — Intensive Home Visiting — a specially trained team who provide intensive home-visiting to vulnerable mums (e.g. mums under the age of 19) — School Nursing — leading the Healthy Child Programme from 5 to 19 years.