Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Back to work this morning at another meeting of Hertfordshire’s Community Cohesion Strategy Group. We have some £20,000 to spend on research and consultation, but it seems that the strategy will be substantially written before the research is completed – and in any case the research may not tell us anything new (Dr Karen Griffiths of HCC has compiled a great summary of baseline data). Why can this money not be used for something else? In the afternoon, I attended a meeting of the NHS Stakeholders Group. Back home, I prepared and sent summary reports to HIC and Herts CVS colleagues on some of the groups I’m involved with: the Regional Empowerment Partnership, the Hertfordshire Community Cohesion Strategy Group and the NHS Stakeholders Group for Herts. At some point I will need to reach a judgment on the value of these various engagements.