Issue - meetings

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.

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.