Issue - meetings

(i)       to note the content of the report;

(ii)       to acknowledge the hard work of secondary schools, and the wider support staff in Education and Lifelong Learning in supporting S5 Girls to improve their mental health outcomes;

(iii)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to consider the findings of the report and plan next steps as part of work being taken forward to develop the next Local Outcome Improvement Plan and associated National Improvement Framework Plan; and

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to report the findings of the next Health and Wellbeing surveys to Committee following the next survey point.

The Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director Families and Communities which set out the findings of the Health and Wellbeing surveys undertaken within Aberdeen City Schools in December 2024.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the content of the report;

(b)      acknowledge the hard work of secondary schools, and the wider support staff in Education and Lifelong Learning in supporting S5 Girls to improve their mental health outcomes;

(c)      instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to consider the findings of the report and plan next steps as part of work being taken forward to develop the next Local Outcome Improvement Plan and associated National Improvement Framework Plan; and

(d)      instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to report the findings of the next Health and Wellbeing surveys to Committee following the next survey point.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.