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A report by the Chief Executive, Moray Council asked the Board to consider and approve the Poverty Strategy.
Mr Burns apologised to the Board for updating members of Moray Council on the Strategy before the Board had had a chance to scrutinise it.
Councillor Morrison questioned whether Gypsy/Traveller families should be included in the list of priority population groups as listed on page 17 of the strategy.
In response, Mr Littlejohn informed the Board that the list of priority population groups was still in development and would add Gypsy/Traveller families and any other groups that the Board thought had been omitted.
Mr Findlay sought clarification on whether a breakdown of in work poverty figures for Moray and where Moray sits in relation to Scotland should be included.
Mr Burns indicated that those figures had been provided in the Poverty report submitted to the Board at the April meeting and confirmed he would forward a copy of the report to Mr Findlay.
Following lengthy discussion, the Board:
- considered and approved the attached Strategy, subject to the changes discussed;
- noted that the Fairer Moray Forum (FMF) will lead the development of an action plan using the matrix approach set out in the Strategy. The development of the Action Plan will be a three step process:-
- pre-population of the poverty matrix work has commenced on this process by a range of agencies and officers to identify through the FMF group;
- a wide stakeholder workshop in January 2019 to review the pre-populated matrix and provide wider stakeholders to contribute additional details; and
- a whole Community Planning Partnership event setting out the requirements of the action plan.