Market Engagement Questionnaire for Universal Family Behaviour Change

Hampshire County Council (HCC) intends to seek quotations for the delivery of an innovative pilot programme, to support families with children to make sustainable changes to their behaviours, lifestyles, and home environments, with the aim of promoting healthy weight. The programme will be embedded within community settings across Hampshire, and will actively connect families to local assets that support them to make and sustain these changes.

Hampshire County Council is looking for a provider to deliver a preventive Universal Family Behaviour Change service, to provide short-term, light-touch information, advice and behaviour change to families. It will be available to all families through self- or professional referral (with no entry criteria).

The objectives of the service are to:

Develop, with relevant professional expertise, a Hampshire-specific family behaviour change programme guide and resources.

Deliver 4-6-week Family Behaviour Change group programmes to families across Hampshire, supporting them to set and achieve goal(s) related to healthy weight (diet, physical activity, sedentary behaviour, oral health), by trained staff face-to-face in community settings, or virtually, with options for 1:1 support if suitable.

Connect families attending the group programme to assets and resources specific to their local area, to help them make and sustain behaviour changes, through signposting or using delivery time to support attendance.

Identify and build relationships with stakeholders and partners to raise awareness of the service, understand how their healthy weight offers can augment the service, and promote professional referrals.

Develop and deliver a communications plan to promote the service to families in a way that is appealing, engaging, and minimises stigma around support related to healthy weight.

The Questionnaire is being undertaken as an information gathering exercise, to identify third party interest in supporting, running or managing either the entirety or aspects of a Universal Family Behaviour Change service.

The Authority will consider the outcome of this Questionnaire and, if applicable, may commence a formal procurement process at a later stage.

Please return your completed questionnaire by email to strategic.procurement@hants.gov.uk.

The deadline for receipt of completed questionnaires is 30 October 2023 at midnight.

You may also wish to register on our etendering Portal, as all correspondence will be through this should a formal procurment process proceed. Registration on the County Councils etendering portal, In-Tend, can be found at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire/aspx/Home