Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to note that officers would arrange a workshop for Members in respect of the Workforce Delivery Plan and Early Learning and Childcare;

(ii)        to note that officers would provide feedback to the Committee towards the end of the 12 month period as to how effective the scheme to retrain staff in Early Learning and Childcare had been and whether the scheme would be extended further;

(iii)       to approve the Aberdeen City: Workforce Delivery Plan – Early Learning and Childcare;

(iv)       to instruct the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s and Family Services to implement the Workforce Delivery Plan; and

(v)        to thank the Chief Education Officer and her team for the huge amount of work that had gone into the Plan.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which sought approval for an Aberdeen City: Workforce Delivery Plan – Early Learning and Childcare.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

(a)      approve the Aberdeen City: Workforce Delivery Plan – Early Learning and Childcare; and

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer – Integrated Children’s and Family Services to implement the Workforce Delivery Plan.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to note that officers would arrange a workshop for Members in respect of the Workforce Delivery Plan and Early Learning and Childcare;

(ii)        to note that officers would provide feedback to the Committee towards the end of the 12 month period as to how effective the scheme to retrain staff in Early Learning and Childcare had been and whether the scheme would be extended further;

(iii)       to thank the Chief Education Officer and her team for the huge amount of work that had gone into the Plan; and

(iv)       to approve the recommendations contained in the report.

-        COUNCILLOR LESLEY DUNBAR, Convener