(i) to note the Council’s planned actions to be taken in response to the Scottish Women’s Budget Group Study on Gender Inequality and Poverty in Aberdeen;
(ii) to thank members of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group Steering Group, Aberdeen Youth Movement and all other stakeholders who participated in improvement action planning process;
(iii) to instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning and Chief Officer – Data Insights, to review questions in future surveys on early learning and out of school care in order to ensure analysis by socio-economic status is possible, so that any variations can be identified and additional targeted measures can be introduced where required;
(iv) to instruct the Executive Director of Corporate Services to map women’s groups across the city with a view to highlighting where support might be available;
(v) to note the importance of wrap around childcare to enable women to return to the workforce and to lifting children out of poverty. Notes the expansion of breakfast club provision in 2025/26 through the Bright Starts breakfast fund and instructs the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to look at external funding opportunities to support expansion for the end of the school day provision; and
(vi) to instruct the Executive Director of Corporate Services to provide an update on the 52 improvement actions presented in this report by December 2026.
(i) to note the findings of the final report on the Scottish Women’s Budget Group Study on Gender Inequality and Poverty in Aberdeen;
(ii) to thank all those that participated in this project;
(iii) to instruct the Executive Director of Corporate Services to bring a response to the findings and recommendations of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group Study on Gender Inequality and Poverty to the Committee meeting on 26 November 2025, taking cognisance of priorities and financial implications;
(iv) to instruct the Executive Director of Corporate Services to share the report and recommendations for action with Scottish Government, UK Government, Police Scotland and Financial Services Ombudsman;
(v) to instruct the Executive Director of Corporate Services to bring an evaluation report on the process to the Committee meeting in January 2026; and
(vi) to instruct the Strategic Lead, Prevention and Community Empowerment to provide further information in respect of new childminder provision in the previously identified blackspot areas.
(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.