Award of Healthy Families, Healthy Communities – Change 4 Life Health Service in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster

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capitalEsourcing awarded a contract to Family Action for the provision of the Healthy Families, Healthy Communities – Change 4 Life Health Service in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster.

The service aims to support children and young people to be happy and healthy in all settings where they live, learn and play.

Specific aims include improving the local food environment and access to healthy food, promoting consistent healthy lifestyle messages, providing incentives for local organisations and businesses to improve practices around healthy eating and physical activity, increasing opportunities for children, young people and families to keep active, building the capacity of local organisations to introduce sustainable health-promoting actions, increasing engagement in planning and designing activities for healthier neighbourhoods, contributing to efforts to reduce childhood obesity and unequal health outcomes, maximising the reach of the Change4Life social marketing campaign, improving take-up of the Healthy Start scheme, and promoting recommended vitamin supplements for pregnant or breastfeeding women and children under 5 and managing the Healthy Start Vitamins programme.

The contract value is £4,216,119, which includes an optional extension of up to two years in aggregate beyond the initial three-year term.