Provision of Derbyshire Holiday Activities and Food Programme

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Derbyshire County Council awarded a contract to Streetgames UK for the provision of a Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme in Derbyshire.

The programme aimed to make free holiday places available to children aged 5-16 years eligible for free school meals for the equivalent of at least four hours a day, four days a week, six weeks a year, covering four weeks in the summer and a week's worth of provision in each of the Easter and Christmas holidays.

Following a pilot in 2021, the council appointed an external provider to take on delivery of the programme for summer and Christmas 2022 with options to extend for up to 4 additional years subject to satisfactory performance and the availability of ongoing funding for the service.

The delivery model included a primary provider who would build the new service utilising and further developing the existing arrangements, potentially through a primary provider and network of community and voluntary sector and private providers delivering holiday clubs at a local level.

The contract value was AUD 13,340,000.