Issue - meetings

Consideration was given to a joint report of the Managing Director, Children’s Services, Director of Public Health, Strategic Director of Communities and Reform, Strategic Director Commissioning which sought to outline proposals for the future design and delivery of a high quality universal and targeted services for children and families including meeting our mandated public health services for 0-19 year old children, Children’s Centre core offer and support for early years education

The current Right Start and School Nursing Service had been provided by Bridgewater since 1st April 2016. The contract was extended in 2020 for one year from 2020 to 2021 and approval has recently been given to extend it for another year from 2021 to 2022 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. 

No further extensions to the service are permissible under the Contract Procedure Rules, and this is the key opportunity to redesign the delivery to meet the wider aims of the services in Oldham. 

This paper outlined proposals for the future design and delivery of the service, ahead of a new contract from 1 April 2022.  The COVID pandemic has impacted on our capacity for this work until now and there was limited time before a new contract needs to be agreed. 

RESOLVED – That the commercially sensitive information contained at Item 17 of the agenda would be considered before a decision was taken.