Decision details

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to note the approach taken to obtaining nominations for the working group;

(ii)            to agree that all respondents be invited to an information session on the work of the Committee and that officers subsequently confirm the respondent’s commitment for the initial twelve month period;

(iii)          to instruct the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to thereafter appoint twelve of the respondents to the working group for an initial period of twelve months;

(iv)          to request that members of the working group identify a member to take the currently vacant position of external adviser to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee starting in May 2023, and

(v)           to request that the working group, with support from the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment and the External Advisers, submit a report to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee in June 2023 detailing their thoughts on anti-poverty and inequality issues in Aberdeen and making recommendations on actions believed necessary to tackle these issues.