Thursday, 19 March 2009

Today, I had another drive to Cambridge for a meeting of the Regional Empowerment Partnership. There is so much potential for the Partnership to provide some real leadership across the region and I hope we can sustain the momentum. I am now the proud joint Vice Chair of this august body.

True to form, and just days after public assurances that everything was on schedule, I learn today that the launch of the new Vetting and Barring scheme has been postponed for six months. You couldn’t make it up.