Monday, 10 December 2007

I drove to the HCC’s Development Centre at Wheathampstead to meet with John Hyland and Shahla Taheri-White to discuss a contract for WCVS to delivery a BME Advocacy service. The service will support the families of children who have a complaint against a school where the complaint has a racial or faith dimension. As ever, it is a little more complicated than that, but not much. This morning’s discussions were very positive and constructive and contracts should be signed very soon. HCC are keen for the service to be up and running no later than April 2008; the only major potential difficulty I see is recruiting for the post.

From Wheathampstead, I drove to Letchworth to spend time with Jacquie and Steph preparing for tomorrow’s HIC meeting. And of course we spent more hours on the HIC Consortium Development Plan. I’m bored with this now.

Also, I met briefly with Paul Ruskin who seems to pop up everywhere at the moment. There was talk of a bid for IT under the Capacitybuilders Improving Reach programme.