WNC Children & Young People Health and Wellbeing Survey

Question: What is the contract timeline?

Context: Contract start date, end date, total duration, and any key milestones or phases mentioned. Return null if not stated.

The anticipated contract start date is 25 November 2026. The project will consist of three survey waves, which are scheduled for 2027, 2029, and 2031. The contract closure and handover will occur at the end of these three survey waves. The contract end date and total duration are not explicitly stated as a specific date or fixed period beyond the completion of the final survey wave.

The core scope of work for this tender involves designing and delivering a health and wellbeing survey for children and young people in West Northamptonshire. This encompasses survey development, engaging with educational settings and children, survey administration, analysis, reporting, and providing documented datasets. The provider will collect and analyze data and produce reports for individual schools and the local authority across three survey waves in 2027, 2029, and 2031.

The key objectives and responsibilities of the Provider include:

• Developing an effective, age-appropriate, and accessible health and wellbeing survey for primary and secondary school-aged pupils in partnership with stakeholders.
• Maximizing participation of schools and young people, including home-educated, alternative provision, and SEND children, ensuring representativeness across demographic and geographic characteristics.
• Ensuring efficient coordination and consistent delivery of the survey across all participating schools.
• Collating and analyzing survey results, providing comparisons by age, gender, ethnicity, geographical area, and other variables, and tracking trends over time.
• Providing accessible and visually appealing reports, including summary, thematic, and executive reports to the Local Authority (WNC).
• Providing accessible and visually engaging reports to participating schools, including analysis of individual school trends over time.
• Providing data from the reports in accessible and visually appealing formats for other stakeholders (e.g., slide-decks, infographics).
• Providing raw data in an agreed format with clear metadata for further analysis.
• Reviewing the process and outcomes of each survey wave to improve design and delivery and inform future commissioning.

Core deliverables include:

• An executive report linked to local strategic priorities and public health outcomes.
• Themed summary reports agreed with WNC.
• Individual school reports, including geographical comparisons.
• A WNC ward-level summary report highlighting key issues and participating schools’ responses.
• Adaptable PowerPoint presentations reflecting the executive and themed reports.
• Raw and cleaned datasets, questionnaires, and other agreed outputs provided securely to WNC Public Health in required electronic formats.
• A final longitudinal analysis covering all three survey waves following the 2031 survey wave.
• Fortnightly progress reports to WNC Public Health detailing school engagement, participation, and survey completion rates.
• Details of quality assurance arrangements and documented lessons-learned reviews after each survey wave.
• A clear project plan covering mobilization, roles, governance, ethics, safeguarding, key deliverables, milestones, stakeholder engagement, quality assurance, risk management, data management, intellectual property, project closure, and handover.