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This Council recognises and
acknowledges:
1)
The
significant financial, social, wellbeing and educational impacts
that the last 12 months of Covid and lockdown have brought to
children and their families across the city;
2)
The
great support for these groups that our city’s services,
community groups and communities have provided to alleviate these
impacts;
This Council
therefore resolves to:
1)
Request that the
Chief Executive write to the Secretary of State for Communities and
Local Government, Robert Jenrick MP, asking for him to lobby for
additional funding from the Treasury to support local authorities
providing additional financial and service support to our most
vulnerable and affected children across the city;
2)
Request a report
to a future Children, Young People & Skills committee in this
council year to outline the impacts of Covid-19 and lockdown on
children and young people, and potential additional support that
could be used to mitigate these impacts including:
a.
Emotional and
wellbeing support in the community;
b.
Rebuilding young
people’s community support networks post-Covid;
c.
Ensuring every
child on Free School Meals has access to nutritional food through
School Holidays and not just during term time;
d.
Enabling greater
access to existing council services and programmes through
increased concessionary fees;
e.
Enabling free
travel for young people across the city;
f.
Broadening
out-of-school and after-hours educational support long-term, to
address new and entrenched disadvantage.
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