Decision details

The family healthy living programme delivers a range of children and families weight management and healthy living activity services in deprived areas of Leeds.

This key decision is seeking approval for new interim contract arrangements with existing providers to ensure service continuity whilst the Children and Families team undertakes further work to develop a long-term and effective solution for the delivery of these services.

These interim arrangements will be from 1^st October 2017 for 18 months (with 12 month extension provision) and cost £293,010 per annum.

The Public Health strategic commissioning priority for an integrated healthy living service (IHLS) for Leeds was reported to Executive Board on 9^th March 2016, who gave authority for the project to progress and for these services to be competitively procured as two separate contracts.  One contract to deliver the family healthy living programme was not awarded following a detailed evaluation of the tender submissions.

Due to this unsuccessful award, there is insufficient extension provision available on the existing interim contract arrangements for Public Health to complete the further work required to ensure a successful project outcome.  In addition, a review of the healthy child pathway services (including community public health nurses, health visiting and dental public health services) has just started with the intention for new arrangements to be put in place from 1^st April 2019. 

This report is therefore seeking approval of interim contract arrangements for the family healthy living programme services from 1^st October 2017 for 18 months (with the option to extend up to 12 months).  This will align all the end dates of the contracts delivering the healthy child pathway strategic commissioning priority.  The cost of these arrangements will be £293,010 per annum.

These interim arrangements will comprise taking up an extension of the contract with Leeds Community Healthcare NHS trust (LCH) for the children’s weight management service (Watch-It) only and the waiver of the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules (CPRs) to award new contracts to existing third sector providers (DAZL, Health for All, The Works) without competition for the delivery of children’s physical activity, healthy eating and weight management services.

Routine briefings / DDP

Executive Member for Health, Wellbeing and Adults

Adults and Health DDP

Existing providers