Brighter Futures Healthy Families Service

Thurrock Council wishes to undertake a soft market testing to explore what changes can be made to the model and delivery of its Healthy Child Programme, known locally as the Healthy Families Service (HFS). HFS provides universal, targeted and specialist public health service offer to children and young people 0-19 years (up to 25 in case of SEND). Health visitors lead the 0-5 element of the healthy child programme starting in the antenatal period when they meet people in their own homes, ending when the child enter...