This report requests approval from the
Executive Director of Health and Wellbeing to award the contract
for the delivery of Infant Feeding Peer Support Service from 1st
October 2017 to 30th September 2019.
Approval was given on 21st December 2016 to collaboratively
commission an infant feeding peer support service with Tameside
MBC, with Tameside MBC acting as the lead commissioner and to
delegate authority to the Executive Director of Health and
Wellbeing to authorise the award of the contract on the part of
Oldham Borough Council to the most economically advantageous
tenderer.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 15/06/2017
Contact: Katrina Stephens, Director of Public Health Ext. 8686, Email: katrina.stephens@oldham.gov.uk Email: katrina.stephens@oldham.gov.uk.
Consultation process
The design of the service has arisen following
a period of review and consultation with local parents undertaken
through Action Together, and small area analysis of local data so
as to target the intervention to the most appropriate population
group.