Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to note the work undertaken to date as we work to become a Child Friendly City;

(ii)        to instruct the Chief Education Officer to establish a representative city-wide pupil forum that will meet regularly and support identification and setting of strategic priorities of the service, discuss a range of relevant issues and influence the recommendations being brought before the Education Operational Delivery Committee; and

(iii)       to endorse the principles and values of a children's rights-based approach to enable a Child Friendly City with empowered children and young people.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which provided an overview of the work being undertaken by the Council in order for Aberdeen to become a Child Friendly City.

The report recommended:-

that Committee

(a)       note the work undertaken to date to become a Child Friendly City; and

(b)       instruct the Chief Education Officer to establish a representative city-wide pupil forum that would meet regularly and support identification and setting of strategic priorities of the service, discuss a range of relevant issues, and influence the recommendations being brought before the Education Operational Delivery Committee.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to approve recommendations (a) and (b); and

(iii)       to endorse the principles and values of a children's rights-based approach to enable a Child Friendly City with empowered children and young people.