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Published 06 Nov 2024

WSCC - Healthy Child Programme

West Sussex County Council · South East

Key facts

Contract value
£79,400,000
Awarded
30 Oct 2024
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Buyer type
Local government

Awarded to

SupplierValue
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust£79,400,000

Description

This is an Intention to Award Notice under the Provider Selection Regime Direct Award process C. The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) is a national, public health programme that aims to improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities for children and families. The programme is led by Specialist Community Public Health Nurses and delivers a range of prevention and early intervention services, from universal through to targeted and specialist, dependent upon the needs of the family. West Sussex HCP covers the whole county and is aligned to this national programme. It works with children aged 0-19 years (up to 25 years for those with special educational needs and disabilities) and their families. The programme is split into an under 5s and school age service. The under 5s element is led by Health Visitors. This team delivers services including a series of mandated, universal health reviews and specialist, 1-1 work for those families requiring more intensive support. The team operate from Family Hubs, libraries and other community centres across the county, as well as offering a telephone and text support service for parents/carers. The 5-19s team is led by School Nurses. This team delivers termly webinars to schools on a variety of public health related subjects. It also delivers the National Child Measurement Programme and vision and hearing screening. Additionally, it provides a telephone and text support service for parents and young people. 1-1 sessions are also offered to young people requiring more intensive support and following a referral from school. Family Nurse Partnership is provided as part of HCP in West Sussex. This programme works with vulnerable, young, first-time parents to provide intensive early support from pregnancy until the baby is up to 2 years old. The aim is to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes by supporting development of positive attachment between parent and child.

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