Issue - meetings

(i)       in relation to the query about Active Travel and whether it had improved in schools which offered an active travel plan, to note that officers would provide detail on this (and the earlier query in relation to walking buses) outwith the meeting;

(ii)       to note the content of this report and the data shared within Appendix A;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education to consider the findings of the report and plan next steps, including the development of a partnership approach through a multi-agency Health & Wellbeing Summit; and

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education to report the outcome of the multi-agency health and Wellbeing Summit to Committee as soon as reasonably practicable.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Operating Officer which set out the findings of the recent Health and Wellbeing surveys which had been undertaken within Aberdeen City Schools, as well as the current support in place for wellbeing, both physical and mental.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the content of this report and the data shared within Appendix A;

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education to consider the findings of the report and plan next steps, including the development of a partnership approach through a multi-agency Health & Wellbeing Summit; and

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education to report the outcome of the multi-agency health and Wellbeing Summit to Committee as soon as reasonably practicable.

The Convener, seconded by the Vice Convener, moved the recommendations as set out in the report.

Councillor Grant, seconded by Councillor Malik, moved as an amendment:-

That Committee:-

(a)            note the content of this report and the data shared within Appendix A;

(b)            instruct the Chief Education Officer to establish a Children’s Mental Health taskforce to support Children and young people’s mental health following the pandemic and to support children and young people’s mental health through the “cost of living” crisis thereafter consider the findings of the report alongside the Children’s Mental Health taskforce to plan next steps, including the development of a partnership approach through a multi-agency Health & Wellbeing Summit; and

(c)            instruct the Chief Education Officer to report the outcome of the multi-agency health and Wellbeing Summit to Committee as soon as reasonably practicable.

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (11) – the Convener; the Vice Convener; Councillors Allard, Bouse, Cooke, McLellan, Radley and van Sweeden; Mrs Cardno, Mr Crawford and Mr Murray; for the amendment (5) – Councillors Blake, Brooks, Grant, Malik and McLeod; declined to vote (3) – Mr Paul, Miss Scott and Mrs Smith.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       in relation to the query about Active Travel and whether it had improved in schools which offered an active travel plan, to note that officers would provide detail on this (and the earlier query in relation to walking buses) outwith the meeting; and

(ii)       to approve the motion.