Tender for the Provision of a 0-19 Healthy Child Programme

Sefton has an age 0-19 population of 59,700; and of those 14,500 are under the age of 5 years. Public Health services are currently provided to the 0-19 age group through 3 separate contracts, which include Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership and School Nursing. Under the terms of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, upper-tier local authorities are responsible for improving the health of their local population and in relation to this hold an array of statutory duties for children, including: • establishing...