GGC0437 Tender for the Provision of Renfrewshire School Councelling Service

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The challenges in improving health within Renfrewshire are complex and significant. There is a strong history of partnership working over many years, with a host of organisations engaged in health improvement effort. In particular, the Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership values the role of the voluntary sector who we know to offer significant opportunities for reach and for enabling people to access wider health improvement services and activities. Renfrewshire’s record of poor health is well documented. In almost all population risk measures Renfrewshire fares very poorly. We are one of the local authority areas that contribute most to the poor international health statistics that Scotland is known for. Our life expectancy is equally poor. This means that the burden of illness starts early and the consequences of illness extend further for our population, and that the gap in healthy life expectancy starts very early indeed. Our challenge is in determining where to focus our health improvement specialist’s efforts in Renfrewshire with such considerable and stark need.