Issue - meetings

(i)            to instruct the Executive Director – Families and Communities to circulate the ABZWorks Commissioning of Rocket Science study looking at barriers into employability for parents;

(ii)          to instruct the Executive Director – Families and Communities to circulate an update in respect of the study period stated for reporting of breastfeeding;

(iii)         to instruct the Executive Director – Families and Communities to circulate details of the national Childminding Recruitment campaign;

(iv)         to instruct the Executive Director – Families and Communities, to follow up with the Asthma and Allergy Foundation as part of the further investigations in respect of the increasing local trend around hospitalisations due to asthma;

(v)          to note the progress made in delivering the Aberdeen City Integrated Children’s Services Strategic Plan and associated work to address child poverty from April 2024 to date; and

(vi)         to note the comments on the report in advance of it being presented to the Education and Children’s Services Committee for internal approval and thereafter Community Planning Aberdeen for full ratification

to approve the appointment of a new external adviser representing the charitable sector, as named in the report, to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee.

The Committee had before it a report prepared by the Community Planning Manager seeking approval of the appointment of a new external adviser to the Committee.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee approve the appointment of a new external adviser representing the charitable sector, as named in the report, to the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendation.