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(i)       to request that officers continue to review the language used in future reports to ensure appropriate terminology was used;

(ii)       to note the work undertaken to date;

(iii)      to continue to endorse the Whole Systems Approach to Healthy Weight known as Healthy Weight Aberdeen; and

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer – Education and Lifelong Learning to report progress on the service’s delivery of the Whole Systems approach, Healthy Weight Aberdeen, through a Service Update within 12 calendar months.

With reference to article 12 of the minute of its meeting of 2 July 2024, the Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director Families and Communities which set out progress on the work to increase the number of children and young people who were of a healthy weight by taking a Whole System Approach.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the work undertaken to date;

(b)      continue to endorse the Whole Systems Approach to Healthy Weight known as Healthy Weight Aberdeen; and

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer – Education and Lifelong Learning to report progress on the service’s delivery of the Whole Systems approach, Healthy Weight Aberdeen, through a Service Update within 12 calendar months.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to request that officers continue to review the language used in future reports to ensure appropriate terminology was used; and

(ii)       to approve the recommendations.