Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       in relation to section 3.8 of the report, and the development of materials to support an improved, collective understanding of adolescent brain development, to request that these materials also be shared with the Committee, and that a workshop be arranged for Members;

(ii)       to note the approach taken to delivery of the Health and Wellbeing Summit held on 14October 2022;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education to establish a Mental Health Collaborative to focus on positive mental health from birth to end of life;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education to establish an aligned Youth Taskforce to inform the work of the Mental Health Collaborative; and

(v)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education to report on progress within one calendar year.

With reference to article 9 of the minute of the meeting of the Education Operational Delivery Committee of 8 September 2022, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Executive which addressed the instruction that the Chief Officer – Education consider the data shared at that meeting in relation to health and wellbeing and plan next steps by holding a multi-agency Health and Wellbeing Summit, with a report back to Committee on the outcomes.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the approach taken to delivery of the Health and Wellbeing Summit held on 14October 2022;

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education to establish a Mental Health Collaborative to focus on positive mental health from birth to end of life;

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education to establish an aligned Youth Taskforce to inform the work of the Mental Health Collaborative; and

(d)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education to report on progress within one calendar year.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       in relation to section 3.8 of the report, and the development of materials to support an improved, collective understanding of adolescent brain development, to request that these materials also be shared with the Committee, and that a workshop be arranged for Members; and

(ii)       to approve the recommendations.