Wednesday, 13 February 2008

I began the morning meeting with Louise Jones of Connexions who manages our Aim Higher contract. We talked about the contract and targets and so on and also about the ongoing merger in Hertfordshire of Youth Services and Connexions. The merger plans envisage services becoming more focused on Districts and Boroughs. This is problematic for us: although all our PAs are employed in Watford and work predominently with young people from Watford, they also work with young people in Dacorum, St Albans, Three Rivers, Hertsmere, and occasionally even from north London. Young people have far too little respect for District boundaries.

After this I worked hard to e-mail out final papers for next week's trustees meeting and to finish preparations (with Vanessa) for tomorrow’s PQASSO training.