Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Executive Councillor (Children & Young People)

The Executive Councillor (Children & Young People) submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) inviting the Executive Meeting to consider the Child Poverty for Stockport. The report also included an Action Plan to accompany the Strategy and an Equality Impact Assessment.

In light of the removal of the requirement for local authorities to produce Equality Impact Assessments (EIA) but the ongoing importance of addressing inequalities in the Borough, the Executive Councillor also invited the Executive Meeting to agree to maintaining the Council’s current requirement to produce an EIA as part of the decision making processes.

RESOLVED – (1) That the Stockport Child Poverty Strategy and Action Plan for 2011-14 be approved and adopted.

(2) That the Children & Young People’s Scrutiny Committee be invited to monitor the implementation of the Strategy and Action Plan.

(3) That the Executive reaffirms the Council’s current practice of requiring the completion of an Equality Impact Assessment as part of the decision making process for Council policies.