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Report CS18184

The Health Support to Schools contract expired at the end of March 2019. The contract was currently held by the Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), funded through the Better Care Fund at 603k per annum. The Better Care Funding for this service would cease at the end of 2018/19 and recurrent funding was required if the service was to continue. The report set out the options in terms of funding and commissioning. The commissioning options were –

Option 1: Go to tender for a standalone Health Support to Schools service for children aged 5-19 to start in April 2019.

Option 2: In agreement with Bromley CCG, extend the current contract for sixteen months so that it will align with the end of the current Health Visiting Contract which ended in September 2020, and then commission a combined 0-19 service.

Option 3: Consider if, within the existing service provision there are elements of the service that could cease and if so what implications this would have on other areas of children’s’ services.

The recommended option, option 2, would align the service with Health Visiting in a combined contract from September 2020 – this was a model that was being adopted across the country.

The report had been scrutinised by the Adult Care and Health PDS Committee at its meeting on 21^st November 2018 and the Committee had supported the proposals.

RESOLVED that new funding of £603k be approved to be included in the Draft Revenue Budget for 2019/20, with a further £302k for 2020/21 for the Health Support to Schools service as outlined in option 2 in section 4.6 of the report.