Cabinet:

1.         Approved of the award of a Healthy Child Programme (HCP) contract to North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), for the reasons set out within the body of the report. The contract sum to be £23,797,000, for a period of  five (5) years plus up to a further two (2) year extension period following a Best Value Review (within the meaning of Part 1 of the Local Government Act 1999) of the HCP service contract,  with a start date of 1^st April 2020.

2.         Approved investment of an additional:

·         £289k for year one of the contract

·         £578k for year two of the contract

·         £867k per annum for the remaining term of the contract

The full uplift will increase the annual value of the contract to £3.462m and thus fund the service at the minimum level necessary to deliver the HCP in full for children aged under 5.