Issue - meetings

This report recommends that diet-related children’s health is approved to be added to the list of future scrutiny topics.

Members considered a report scoping a potential topic for review on diet-related children’s health, first registered in June 2004 (topic registration form no. 99). The report identified the national and regional context, as well as any preliminary consultation and research undertaken to date.  The scoping work had established an ongoing upwards trend with obesity in children with its  associated problems (eg. Diabetes) continuing into adulthood.

In view of the wide-ranging nature of the topic, Members felt that any review could not easily be constrained within the constitutional requirements for an ad-hoc review and so suggested that Education Scrutiny Committee be asked to consider whether they wished to review the topic in more detail.

RESOLVED:

That diet-related children’s health be not agreed as a dedicated Ad-hoc review but referred instead to Education Scrutiny Committee for consideration and review if that Committee, subject to its approval.