Prevention and Early Years Schemes

Overview

This contract represents a new requirement for the continuation of the Prevention of Early Years Schemes, set out to reduce health inequalities and improve long-term wellbeing across Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan by promoting early intervention, strengthening community engagement, and increasing equitable access to preventative health, wellbeing, and sustainability initiatives. Scheme One: Healthy and Sustainable Pre-School Scheme (Cardiff Council) Aims to improve the health and wellbeing of pre-school children by working with childcare settings to promote healthy eating, oral health, and physical activity. It supports early intervention, staff training, family engagement, and a whole-setting approach to creating healthy environments. This scheme works directly with childcare settings across Cardiff and the Vale to promote healthy eating, oral health, and physical activity among young children. It provides training, resources, and accreditation support to staff, helping them adopt a whole-setting approach to health. Family engagement is encouraged through events like health fairs, while expansion efforts target high-need areas to increase the scheme’s reach and long-term impact. Scheme Two: Enhanced Time Credit Approach (Vale of Glamorgan Council) Using volunteering to tackle social isolation, improve wellbeing, and address economic and environmental challenges in disadvantaged communities. It encourages skill-building, active lifestyles, and local engagement, with a focus on social value and corporate responsibility. Using a time banking model, this scheme encourages people in disadvantaged communities to volunteer and earn credits they can spend on wellbeing-related opportunities. It tackles social isolation, builds skills for employment, and promotes environmental responsibility through community activities. Local businesses are engaged to support and participate in the scheme, with a new model called ‘Value in the Vale’ being launched and evaluated for wider impact. Scheme Three: Ethnic Minority Engagement (Cardiff Council) Aims to reduce health inequalities in ethnic minority communities by improving access to preventative services like childhood immunisations and bowel cancer screening. It builds on pandemic-era partnerships to enhance trust, engagement, and culturally appropriate health promotion. This scheme builds on successful pandemic-era partnerships to improve access to preventative health services in ethnic minority communities. It focuses initially on increasing uptake of childhood immunisations and bowel cancer screening through culturally sensitive engagement, events, and communication materials. The project works with community groups and stakeholders to identify barriers and develop effective, trust-building solutions that will later expand to promote healthy weight and physical activity. Procurement route: The grant funding the project from WG is provided to support the recipient’s delivery of public services aligned with their statutory responsibilities. There is no expectation of specific services being purchased by the awarding body for its own direct use. The recipients are not acting as a contractor or supplier but is instead utilising the funding to carry out its own public functions. This arrangement constitutes a grant funding agreement and is therefore not considered a public contract under the Procurement Act 2023. This procurement will be directly awarded under Exempted Contract Schedule 2.3.3 of Procurement Act 2023. Although the requirement does not constitute for the standard procurement procedures, a Transparency Notice will be published outlining the works as best practice.