Services for children aged 0 to 5: transfer to local authorities
Documents relating to the transfer of public health services for children aged 0 to 5 from the NHS to local authorities.
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Health visitor reviews and the transfer of public health services
The planning and commissioning of public health services for children aged 0 to 5 was transferred from the NHS to local authorities in October 2015. Alongside the transfer, regulations require local authorities to make provision for 5 main universal health visitor reviews, which form part of the 0 to 5 Healthy Child Programme. These are the:
- antenatal health promotion review
- new baby review, which is the first check after the birth
- 6 to 8 week assessment
- 1 year assessment
- 2 to 2-and-a-half year review
This will help ensure that a universal health visiting service continues, which is essential to supporting the health and wellbeing of families and children at crucial stages of development. This requirement will end after 18 months. A review at 12 months, involving Public Health England, will influence future arrangements.
Documents on this page
The documents on this page include:
- an overview of the transfer of the 0 to 5 Service from NHS England to local authorities
- an overview of the National Health Visiting Programme
- an overview of the Health Visiting and Family Nurse Partnership Services
- an overview of the changes in how 0 to 5 services are commissioned
- an explanation of changes to the Health Visiting Service so far
- a factsheet on the scope of the transfer of 0 to 5 services
- documents about financial arrangements from October 2015, including factsheets on the timescales for NHS area teams and local authorities in the run up to the transfer
- mandation factsheets to explain the responsibilities of local authorities after the transfer
- an equality analysis that examines the impact of plans in relation to the Department of Health’s duties to the Equality Act 2010
- a factsheet on the relationship between Health Education England and local authorities in relation to workforce planning
- a data and information factsheet
- a note to clarify issues relating to registered and resident populations which may be preventing progress from being made
The Department of Health has also published:
- guidance on capturing commissioning data for 0 to 5 services covering the universal health visitor reviews and other key indicators
- advice for local authorities on the universal health visitor reviews
- case studies from health visitors and service-users
More information can be found in NICE guidance on commissioning health visiting services
Updates to this page
Published 22 August 2014Last updated 12 November 2015 + show all updates
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Added clarification of issues relating to registered and resident populations.
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Added document: 'Data and information factsheet 2: data sharing'
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Minimum floor calculations document updated.
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Added a factsheet that gives an overview of the transfer of the 0 to 5 Service from NHS England to local authorities.
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Data and information factsheet added.
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Added documents: 0 to 5 Public Health Allocations for 2015 to 2016 (July 2015) Equality Analysis: Transfer of 0 to 5 children’s public health commissioning to Local Authorities (July 2015) Finance factsheet 4: Final allocations
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Added 'Factsheet: the role of Health Education England and Local Education and Training Boards'.
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Updated to include 'The transformed health visiting service – the story so far' and new versions of the '0-5 Public Health Allocations for 2015/16' and 'Equality analysis' documents.
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Added equality analysis on mandating elements of the Healthy Child Programme.
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'Finance factsheet 3: Final allocations' added
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Added three overview factsheets
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Updated to include allocations for 2015 to 2016 and equality analysis.
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Mandation of universal healthy child programme assessments/reviews factsheet added.
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Updated 'Factsheet: finance principles'.
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Updated to include 'Scope of 0-5 public health services transition transfer' factsheet.
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Added a fact sheet that explains how finances will work when children’s public health commissioning is transferred to local authorities:
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First published.