Issue - meetings

to approve the motion, subject to amending (3) to read as follows:-

“instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to prepare a business case to provide a defibrillator at every primary and secondary school and Council owned sheltered and very sheltered housing complex in Aberdeen to include capital purchase, installation, whole life costs, training requirements and to explore potential funding opportunities that the Council could access and refer this to the 2022/23 budget meeting on 7 March 2022.

The Committee had before it a Notice of Motion by Councillor Boulton in the following terms:-

(1)      Note that every year at schools in the UK, around 270 children die from sudden cardiac arrest, but with correct defibrillation the survival rate can be as high as 75%;

(2)      Note that there are a total of 60 schools across Aberdeen City, the current number of defibrillators are:-

Defibrillator fitted within school premises

Primary Schools – 4

Secondary Schools – 3

Access to a defibrillator in another building on same site

Primary Schools – 2

Secondary Schools – 0; and

(3)      Instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to prepare a business case to provide a defibrillator at every primary and secondary school in Aberdeen to include capital purchase, installation, whole life costs, training requirements and to explore potential funding opportunities that the Council could access and refer this to the 2022/23 budget meeting on 7 March 2022.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the motion, subject to amending (3) above to read as follows:-

“instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to prepare a business case to provide a defibrillator at every primary and secondary school and Council owned sheltered and very sheltered housing complex in Aberdeen to include capital purchase, installation, whole life costs, training requirements and to explore potential funding opportunities that the Council could access and refer this to the 2022/23 budget meeting on 7 March 2022.