Issue - meetings

(i)       to note that if Members were interested in attending the event on 30 August, they could contact the Executive Director Families and Communities to express their interest;

(ii)       to note the work undertaken to learn from published research and local data;

(iii)      to endorse the proposed whole systems approach;

(iv)      to instruct the Executive Director Families and Communities to update Members on the output of the event noted in paragraph 3.17 through a Service Update, noting that officers could prepare a report if this was felt necessary depending on the outcomes from the event; and

(v)      to instruct the Executive Director Families and Communities to report progress within one calendar year.

With reference to article 5 of the minute of its meeting of 20 February 2024, the Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director Families and Communities which sought approval to progress work to increase the number of children and young people who were of a healthy weight by taking a whole system approach.

Members asked a number of questions of the Executive Director and Professor Phil Mackie, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Grampian, who was in attendance for the item.

During the discussion, Councillor Yuill made a transparency statement in relation to his membership of the Board of NHS Grampian, however he did not consider that this amounted to a declaration which would require him to leave the meeting.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the work undertaken to learn from published research and local data;

(b)      endorse the proposed whole systems approach;

(c)      instruct the Executive Director Families and Communities to update Members on the output of the event noted in paragraph 3.17 through a Service Update, noting that officers could prepare a report if this was felt necessary depending on the outcomes from the event; and

(d)      instruct the Executive Director Families and Communities to report progress within one calendar year.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note that if Members were interested in attending the event on 30 August, they could contact the Executive Director Families and Communities to express their interest; and

(ii)       to approve the recommendations.