The provision of Public Health Services - Child Weight Management and Active Choices

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Child Weight Management services This service helps children and their families to manage weight by improving fitness, nutrition, and self-esteem. The service targets children identified through the national child measurement programme (NCMP) as being overweight or obese. NCMP is a statutory programme. Substance misuse recovery support (Active Choices) The service supports individuals with getting more active and maintaining routine as they recover from substance misuse. It also provides sustainable exit routes from drug and alcohol treatment, builds the recovery community and peer support networks. Lot 1: Child Weight Management Service: The aim of the service is to provide a family-centred, evidence-based, community service that will support children to achieve a healthy weight through promoting healthy lifestyles, with a particular focus on healthy eating, physical activity, and emotional health. The service will deliver a flexible, multi-component service which meets the latest NICE guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment, and management of overweight and obesity in children. This supply contributes to: • The duty to improve public health and address inequalities (steps considered appropriate for improving the health of the people in its area) (Health & Social Care Act 2012, s.12). • Delivery against Joined Up Care Derbyshire and the Health and Wellbeing Boards objectives in respect of Starting and Living Well. In addition, the service will contribute to the Strategic Healthy Weight partnership priorities to: • Develop clear pathways and signposting to enable children who are already overweight or obese to access joined-up and long-term support. This includes ensuring that there are robust systems in place to identify children who are overweight or obese and a commissioned service is available which provides effective support, in a multidisciplinary approach, to children and families. • Develop preventative approaches for current and future generations and a whole systems approach to obesity which coordinates existing efforts, reveals gaps in provision and supports the efficient use of limited resources. The service will aim to: • Increase the percentage of children achieving at least a 3% BMI reduction in weight. • Increase the number of children with BMI>85 centile joining the child weight management programme. • Address the Government s, national ambition to halve childhood obesity and significantly reduce the gap in obesity between children from the most and least deprived areas by 2030. The government published its policy paper, Tackling obesity: empowering adults and children to live healthier lives in July 2020. Substance Misuse Recovery Service: This service seeks to break the cycle of drug use and drug related offending - diverting individuals away from harmful historic behaviour in a way that is sensitive to prior trauma and childhood adversity. The service supports adults to become more active, and to maintain a daily routine as they recover from substance misuse. It also provides sustainable exit routes for participants. This supply contributes to: • Statutory service delivery in line with the conditions of Public Health Grant allocation in respect of substance misuse (section 31(4) of the Local Government Act 2003). • Break drug supply chains (Home Office and Ministry of Justice) - target organised crime at an international, national and local policing level • Deliver a world class treatment and recovery system (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) - with treatment being commissioned from a range of providers by local authority public health teams. • Achieve a generational shift in demand for drugs - wider ranging interdepartmental approaches to early intervention, education, prevention and research. • Delivery against Joined Up Care Derbyshire and the Health and Wellbeing Boards objectives in respect of reducing alcohol related harm. In addition, the service will contribute to the substance misuse partnership priorities of: • Reducing drug and alcohol related deaths • Increasing the number of people recovering from addiction. The service will also aim to: • Reduce the level of harm caused to individuals, families, and the wider community as a result of drug misuse. • Improve the physical and mental health of complex substance misusing clients and work to address inequalities for priority vulnerable groups including women, underserved ethnic groups and those experiencing homelessness. • Address the ambitions of the Supplemental Substance Misuse Grant and the Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant 22-25 and any subsequent funding objectives.