Torbay 0-19 Integrated Service

Tender description

The move of Public Health Services into the Local Authority has given us an opportunity to reflect and review how some of our universal and targeted services for children, young people and families are delivered and how they fit and work with other specialist provisions of support. We know parents, families and communities are central to a child’s development and wellbeing and we want to help build the capability and capacity of children, young people, parents and the community to support themselves and others. There is an acknowledgment by the Authority that for outcomes for children and young people to change and improve then a transformational way of working needs to be implemented. At present a range of services focused on the nought (0) to nineteen (19) populations are commissioned and delivered as separate organisations with their own service specifications and performance indicators. This can produce duplication (both in provision and commissioning), missed opportunities and handovers that do not need to be in place. It also provides some degree of confusion in the population about whom and where to go to for support during children’s early years. In order to achieve a transformational change in improved outcomes for children and young people then the Authority has decided that the culture of commissioning and service delivery needs to radically shift into an integrated outcomes focused direction of travel and this contract indicates a start of that journey. We want a future system that is based on the strengths within individuals, families and communities and works to build upon these rather than focussing solely on deficits. Keywords: integrated, young, people, families, service, children