Issue - decisions

2.0      RECOMMENDATION

2.1      The Cabinet Members approved the contract award for delivering the 0-5 Healthy Child Programme to Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust for a period of five years with the option to extend for a further two years as set out in the table below:

2.2      The Cabinet Members delegated approval to exercise the option to extend the contract to the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health in consultation with the Executive Director of Children’s Services.

3.0      REASONS FOR DECISION

3.1      The local authority has had commissioning responsibility for the current contract delivered by Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust since 2015. During this time direct awards were requested in order to align with the pre-birth to five transformation programme. The current two-year direct award comes to an end in April 2022.

3.2      The implementation of the integrated delivery model will allow the local authority to achieve our local vision to deliver an improved 0-5 pathway, which provides a core, high quality universal offer whilst providing a more intensive offer proportional to need.

3.3      Local authorities are mandated to secure provision of the five universal contacts within the Healthy Child Programme. These include the antenatal health promoting visit, the new baby review, the 6- week assessment, the one-year assessment and the two-year review.