Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure requesting that the Committee consider the attached draft, five-year, combined Tobacco, Alcohol and

Drugs Strategy (2023 – 2028) and recommend any amendments as part of the consultation process.

NB decision by Cabinet 14 December 2022

The Committee considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure requesting that the Committee consider the attached draft, five-year, combined Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Strategy (2023 – 2028) and recommend any amendments as part of the consultation process.

Councillor Fielker – Cabinet Member for Health, Adults and Leisure, Dr Debbie Chase – Director of Public Health, Collin McAllister and Helen Dougan – Senior Public Health Practitioners were present and with the consent of the Chair addressed the meeting.

Councillor Fielker introduced the strategy detailing the issues, the need for the City to have an effective strategy and explained how the strategy was designed to ensure that services across the Council take responsibility, and act collectively, to improve outcomes related to the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.  The Committee discussed a number of issues including the development of key performance indicators across  Council departments that would provide a mechanism to monitor the impact of the strategy on key outcomes.

RESOLVED that the Committee requested that the Cabinet Member takes into consideration the issues raised at the meeting when developing the final version of the report and that the final draft is circulated to the Committee.