Issue - meetings
Scottish Child Abuse Enquiry
Meeting: 14/09/2017 - Education and Childrens Services Committee - expired (Item 17)
17 Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry - ECS/17/049 
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Decision:
(i) to note the resource required to support Aberdeen City’s response to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry; and
(ii) to note the financial and legal implications for the Council arising from the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017.
Minutes:
The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education and Children’s Services which (1) advised of the resource implications arising as a result of responding to statutory notices issued by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry and (2) highlighted the potential financial and legal implications for the Council arising from the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017.
The report recommended –
that the Committee
(a) note the resource required to support Aberdeen City’s response to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry;
(b) note the financial and legal implications for the Council arising from the Limitation (Childhood Abuse) (Scotland) Act 2017.
The Committee resolved:
to approve the recommendations.
- COUNCILLOR JOHN WHEELER,Convener