Welfare services for children and young people

Tender description

Currently Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council deliver a range of services to children and young people through 4 children’s centre hubs and several linked sites in Peterborough, and 10 child and family centres, as well as a number of child and family zones (facilities where there is shared building use), in Cambridgeshire. In Peterborough all the services are delivered by external partners, and In Cambridgeshire all centres are managed ‘in house’ with the exception of South Fenland (March, Chatteris and Whittlesey), where services are delivered by an external partner. It is the externally provided services that is the focus of this soft market testing. The core purpose of children’s centres is to improve outcomes for young children 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… Currently Peterborough City Council and Cambridgeshire County Council deliver a range of services to children and young people through 4 children’s centre hubs and several linked sites in Peterborough, and 10 child and family centres, as well as a number of child and family zones (facilities where there is shared building use), in Cambridgeshire. In Peterborough all the services are delivered by external partners, and In Cambridgeshire all centres are managed ‘in house’ with the exception of South Fenland (March, Chatteris and Whittlesey), where services are delivered by an external partner. It is the externally provided services that is the focus of this soft market testing. The core purpose of children’s centres is to improve outcomes for young children 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…