Purpose

To agree to commission a School-aged Prevention
Service, building on the current Healthy Schools
service.

Decision

Cabinet resolved:
 
1.    To commission a School-aged
Health Improvement and Prevention Service across Peterborough in
line with the emerging integrated place-based 5-19/25 model. This
will add system capacity to the co-ordination of place-based
services for this cohort as well as the provision of a
‘Healthy Schools’ online resource and accreditation
scheme, and delivery of Public Health interventions.
 
2.    For Peterborough City Council
to commission the service using a competitive process under the
Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The new contract shall commence on 1April 2025 for a duration of 2
years with the option to extend for a further 2+2 years (Total 6
years) subject to evaluation of the
service.  
 
3.    To agree the annual budget of
£150,000 p.a. funded by the public health grant for the first
2 years of the contract.
 
4.    To delegate authority to the
Director of Public Health to award the contract to the successful
bidder and exercise the option to extend after each of the two-year
extension periods.
 
Options and reasons can be found in the attached report.