Issue - meetings
Formation of a working group to support the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee - CUS/23/
Meeting: 08/03/2023 - Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee (Item 11)
Decision:
The Committee resolved:-
(i) to note the approach taken to obtaining nominations for the working group;
(ii) to agree that all respondents be invited to an information session on the work of the Committee and that officers subsequently confirm the respondent’s commitment for the initial twelve month period;
(iii) to instruct the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to thereafter appoint twelve of the respondents to the working group for an initial period of twelve months;
(iv) to request that members of the working group identify a member to take the currently vacant position of external adviser to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee starting in May 2023, and
(v) to request that the working group, with support from the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment and the External Advisers, submit a report to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee in June 2023 detailing their thoughts on anti-poverty and inequality issues in Aberdeen and making recommendations on actions believed necessary to tackle these issues.
Minutes:
The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment providing information on the formation of a Working Group to support the work of the Committee.
The report recommended:-
that the Committee:
(a) note the approach taken to obtaining nominations for the working group;
(b) agree that all respondents be invited to an information session on the work of the Committee and that officers subsequently confirm the respondent’s commitment for the initial twelve month period;
(c) instruct the Chief Officer - Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to thereafter appoint twelve of the respondents to the working group for an initial period of twelve months;
(d) request that members of the working group identify a member to take the currently vacant position of External Adviser to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee starting in May 2023; and
(e) request that the working group, with support from the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment and the External Advisers, submit a report to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee in June 2023 detailing their thoughts on anti-poverty and inequality issues in Aberdeen and making recommendations on actions believed necessary to tackle these issues.
The Committee resolved:-
to approve the recommendations.
- COUNCILLOR CHRISTIAN ALLARD, Convener.</AI12>
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