Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health and the Interim Director of Public Health, and to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member on the proposed decision to extend the contracts with Kent Community Health Trust and with Medway Foundation Trust until 30 September 2015 to allow the outcome of the Healthy Child Review to influence a future procurement of these services.

1.            Mr Scott-Clark introduced the report and, in response to a question, explained that data from the service would be used to input into needs assessments, and that more detail of the work of school nurses would be included in future monitoring report to the Committee.

2.            RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and Public Health, to extend the contracts with Kent Community Health Trust and Medway Foundation Trust until 30 September 2015, to allow the outcome of the Healthy Child Review to influence a future procurement of the school public health service, be endorsed.