The receptionist finds it strange that I should complain about the fact there is no curtain covering the window in my bathroom - nobody has ever complained before. Just as well I plan to spend as little time as possible in my room.
WEDNESDAY - Catch up with colleagues over breakfast who regale me with stories of past day trips to Southport. They persuade me to walk along the promenade to the conference centre, but the much anticipated sight of the Southport seaside fails to materialise - the sea seems to have packed up and headed south for the winter season.
Manage to catch YJB chair Frances Done's opening address. She talks about the need for youth offending teams to be more entrenched in the local community, while making an impassioned plea for longer term funding arrangements, particularly around prevention funding. It does seem crazy that every couple of years we have to rehearse the same old arguments. We know that targeted early intervention works - every politician tells us so - but it still seems impossible to secure long-term funding that projects need.
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