Public Health Commissioning Intentions

Norfolk Healthy Child Programme (HCP)

(A set of services and partnerships to improve the health and wellbeing of CYP, including Norfolk's Healthy Child Service; an integrated provision for all 0-19-year-olds, their families and carers, offering services such as health visiting, school nursing, the family nurse partnership and our Just One Norfolk health resource website and helpline)

In the first half of 2024/25 we revised our model of 0-5 provisions in the Healthy Child Service, which went live in October 2024, before moving our focus to the development of our School Nursing (0-19) offer, aligning to the NCC school zone approach. 

We also commissioned a new CYP Healthy Weight management service, and have commenced a nicotine intervention development project.

Following on from this, during 2025/26 we will:

• Drawing learning from the changes made to date, and the work under Start for Life, determine by the end of 2025/26 the delivery model of our Healthy Child Service that will become effective from October 2026. 
• Work with system partners, to develop a shared collaborative commissioning approach to the Just One Norfolk, Just One Number and For Your Information provisions.
• Establish and embed the newly commissioned CYP Healthy Weight service as a key aspect of Norfolk's wider children's healthy weight, nutrition and activity offer. 
• Continue to learn from the Flourish schools survey about the public health & wellbeing needs of CYP and use this to help inform and influence the planned work outlined. We will complete a review of the survey, to determine its future frequency, use and approach. 
• Develop our Healthy Child Programme partnership approach, bringing together a focus on the health inequalities of CYP. 
• Work with partners, young people, and their families, as part of our young people's nicotine harm reduction intervention development project, to establish the most effective approaches.
• Continue to support the development of, and a collaborative approach to, the Start for Life offer and family hub work in Norfolk, bringing together partners, providers and families to do this. 
• Develop a shared understanding of CYP risk taking behaviours in Norfolk and complete an evidence base review of good practice in relation to this. 
• Working with partners to review Norfolk's mental health and wellbeing prevention offer.

Young People's Drug and Alcohol and Affected Others services

Offering specialist support, advice and information for CYP using substances themselves, as well as those affected by someone else's substance misuse)

• Continue to further embed the CYP substance misuse and Affected Others provision in Norfolk
• Continue to develop the wider children & young people's drug and alcohol partnership approach; focusing on training, parent and carer support and dual diagnosis

Other

• We will continue to embed Flourish, Norfolk's partnership strategy for children and young people based on the Flourish ambition, across our commissioning activities, and provide evidence of impact on related public health outcomes.
• We will review Norfolk's MPower service.