A new partnership of healthcare providers, including AWP, has been selected as the preferred bidder to deliver community health services for children and young people. The services will run in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset and are due to begin in April 2017.

The services will include health visiting, school nursing, child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS), speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, community paediatricians, community nursing and a range of dedicated services for vulnerable children including children in care, children with learning disabilities, children with life limiting conditions and children with drug and alcohol problems.