Decision Details

Decision Confirmed

Commissioning a School-Aged Health Improvement and Prevention Service

Delegate authority to the Executive Director for Adults, Health and Commissioning to award the contract to the chosen provider and exercise the option to extend the contract after each 2-year period, in consultation with the Chair and Vice Chair of the Children and Young People Committee.

Tue 25 Jun 2024

Adults Health and Commissioning

Raj Lakshman, Consultant in Public Health rak.lakshman@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

 

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Officer

Patrick Warren-Higgs

Yes

The current annual funding envelope for the Healthy Schools contract in Cambridgeshire is £168,720. This is broken down as below: Costing Existing model: Cambridgeshire Partnership work 8,039 Healthy Schools online platform and accreditation 37,240 Catch your breath programme (vaping/smoking prevention) 30,979 Foodsmart Nutrition programme (subcontracted to PECT) 46,360 Overheads, start-up & central costs inc. Head Office 46,102 TOTAL 168,720 5.2 We are recommending that the funding previously allocated to the Foodsmart element and online platform are reallocated. The separate ‘foodsmart’ accreditation has now been combined within the single Healthy Schools accreditation programme, resources have been produced and are available on the main website, and other Public Health contracts are well positioned to pick up the other parts of this work. The Healthy Schools website has been developed and is now a well-recognised brand. In addition, we have identified savings (no inflationary uplift) from the Healthy Child Programme budget by extensive service redesign to be invested into this programme as well as re-calculating the overheads and other oncosts. These savings would release capacity to invest in establishing the co-ordination function to support the move to place-based work, and the expansion of the direct delivery of Public Health interventions that will support 5-19 school nursing service (which is part of the Healthy Child Programme) and wider prevention work in the community. 5.3 The budget for the new model will be £400,000 per annum, this is made up of the existing budget of £168,720 from the Healthy Schools Service. An additional £181,280 has been allocated from efficiencies made in the Healthy Child Programme. These efficiencies have been repurposed to this Service which will develop, increase, complement and support the prevention work of the school nurses. In addition, there is £50,000 from the national new ‘Stopping the Start’ grant funding for smoking & vaping.

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