A Better Start Development Associate - Childhood Obesity Prevention 0-3

A Better Start is a Big Lottery funded opportunity to improve the life chances and outcomes for children 0-3 in Southend with a focus on preventative intervention.

A Better Start Southend is a partnership between the Pre-School Learning Alliance, Southend Borough Council, health authorities, police, families, community groups, commercial sector and the voluntary sector, which aims to give the most vulnerable children the best start in life.

Working together with parents and local communities we aim to develop long term success through evidence based programmes.

We are looking for a provider to develop a summary report in relation to childhood obesity prevention and access to healthy food for the 0-3 population of Southend-on-Sea and their families with: - a proposed locally focused set of strategic interventions - a robust delivery plan and proposals for evaluation - baseline data and a set of system wide indicators This contract will be in place for 12 weeks from May to July 2016 with a value of between £0 to £25,000.

Please note that the closing time is 9am 03/05/16.

The start date of the 9/05/16 is flexible, but must start in May 2016.

The contract will be with Pre-school Learning Alliance in close partnership with using major partner Southend Borough Council, and using SBC’s procurement and payment facilities. .

Due to internal reasons we are extending the deadline for this piece of work until 5pm on Wednesday 11th May.

If you would like to review your submission, make changes and resubmit then please feel free to do so.

We have not reviewed anything we have received and will not be doing to until after 5pm on Friday 11th May.

Thank you for your understanding.