The Committee resolved:-
(i) to note that the Chief Officer – Education would liaise outwith the meeting with Councillor Alphonse in relation to sponsorship opportunities;
(ii) to note that the Chief Officer – Education would liaise with the Lord Provost and Depute Provost in respect of their involvement in promoting the Summer of Play programme;
(iii) to note that officers would be required to report to the Scottish Government on the outcomes from the funding received and so would report those outcomes to the Committee at a future meeting;
(iv) to note the consultation undertaken to help inform the Summer of Play
programme as contained in Appendix A;
(v) to approve the skeletal Summer of Play programme outlined in Appendix B and note that the full grant awarded by Scottish Government would be used to fund the programme;
(vi) to note that the Scottish Government was to fund free school meal vouchers during the summer holidays;
(vii) to instruct the Chief Social Work Officer and Chief Education Officer to develop and implement an awareness raising campaign across all partners involved in the Summer of Play programme, designed to, ‘make every contact count’ in order to further safeguard children and young people;
(viii) to approve the establishment and launch of a Children’s Giving Appeal across the city in order to ensure that children can access the Summer of Play programme;
(ix) to instruct the Chief Officer Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to work with the Fairer Aberdeen Board to manage the distribution of monies to community groups;
(x) to instruct the Chief Education Officer to finalise, publicise and implement a programme in keeping with the skeletal Summer of Play programme and provide a service update to members of the Education Operational Delivery Committee on the impact of the programme on the health and wellbeing of those children who participated in the programme; and
(xi) to thank all officers and partners who had worked together to create the programme.