Issue - meetings

(i)       to note the preparatory work in the development of a scope;

(ii)       to instruct the Interim Director – Children’s and Family Services to work with the Interim Director for The Aberdeen Health Determinants Collaborative to formally commission the evaluation; and

(iii)      to ask that officers keep Members informed by email in respect of any major milestones with the evaluation work.

With reference to article 8 of the minute of its previous meeting of 24 January 2023, the Committee had before it a report by the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services which presented a proposed scope for a longitudinal evaluation of the expansion of Early Learning and Childcare.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the preparatory work in the development of a scope; and

(b)      instruct the Interim Director – Children’s and Family Services to work with the Interim Director for The Aberdeen Health Determinants Collaborative to formally commission the evaluation.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to approve the recommendations; and

(iii)      to request that officers keep Members informed by email in respect of any major milestones with the evaluation work.