Healthy Schools and Early Years Services
Description: Liverpool City Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the proposed Healthy Schools and Early Years Programme. The programme will provide a structured whole setting approach that supports the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of students, teachers, staff and parents. The programme is intended to provide coordinated and free, comprehensive and accessible health and wellbeing offer that will be responsive to new and emerging needs. It will support both settings and providers to increase access, choice and reduce duplication and will ensure that the local offer is based on the best possible evidence. The Council is therefore exploring a model that focuses on coordination, partnership working and system leadership, bringing together and maximising the impact of existing services rather than replacing them. The intention (read more...)
Summary: Liverpool City Council is developing a citywide Healthy Schools and Early Years Programme, covering schools, early years settings and alternative provision settings in Liverpool. The service will provide a coordinated, free and accessible health and wellbeing offer supporting the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of pupils, children, teachers, staff and parents. It will help settings and providers identify local needs, improve outcomes, increase access and choice, and reduce duplication. The intended approach is to bring together and maximise existing provision rather than replace or duplicate services. This is a community health service, covering coordination, partnership working, system leadership, prevention and early intervention across a whole-setting model. The procurement is categorised as services and is intended to support a coherent local offer responsive to emerging needs.