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Child Poverty Action Plan - CUS/22/149

Meeting: 31/08/2022 - Operational Delivery Committee (Item 20)

20 Child Poverty Action Plan Annual Statutory Report 2021/22 - CUS/22/149 pdf icon PDF 232 KB

Additional documents:

Decision:

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to approve the joint Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian Child Poverty Action Report 2021/22 for submission to the Scottish Government;

(ii)             to note that this report has been created without access to national child poverty data; and

(iii)            to instruct the Chief Officer Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to review the Council’s approach to tackling Child Poverty, in conjunction with Community Planning Partners through the Community Planning Aberdeen Anti - Poverty group, and bring a report back to the relevant Committee detailing a refreshed action plan for 2022-2026.

Minutes:

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment, which presented the Child Poverty Action report for 2021/22, as required by the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017.

 

The report recommended:-

that the Committee -

(a)          approves the joint Aberdeen City Council and NHS Grampian Child Poverty Action Report 2021/22 for submission to the Scottish Government;

(b)          notes that this report has been created without access to national child poverty data; and

(c)          instructs the Chief Officer Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to review the Council’s approach to tackling Child Poverty, in conjunction with Community Planning Partners through the Community Planning Aberdeen Anti - Poverty group, and bring a report back to the relevant Committee detailing a refreshed action plan for 2022-2026.