Issue - meetings

(Joint Report of Director of Street Scene, Leisure and Technical Services and Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)

The report set out details of the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation and highlighted its key aim of raising the issue of mental health and the use of sport and recreation to promote wellbeing and tackle discrimination.  The report invited the Council to ‘sign up’ to the Charter and set out the main actions required to promote its aims at a local level.

Following consideration by the Communities Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Community Services resolved that:

The Council formally sign up to the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation.

Decision Notice D160002MEM

The joint report of the Director of Street Scene, Leisure and Technical Services and the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health set out details of the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation and highlighted its key aim of raising the issue of mental health and the use of sport and recreation to promote wellbeing and tackle discrimination.  The report invited the Council to ‘sign up’ to the Charter and set out the main actions required to promote its aims at a local level.

RECOMMENDED: That the Council formally sign up to the Mental Health Charter for Sport and Recreation.