We meet regularly to discuss strategy. Then I catch a train to London with Neil Wragg, the chief executive of Youth at Risk, an organisation that undertakes personal development programmes for young people and for which I act as an adviser.
I have a meeting with a senior adviser to the minister for children and young people, Beverley Hughes. We talk about how Youth at Risk might contribute to the 10-year youth strategy. It's a very positive discussion.
Tuesday Back to London. First, to the Foyer Federation to discuss how I might contribute to a steering committee to oversee some work on facilities for young offenders, then to the Leverhulme Trust. There, with fellow advisers to the charity, I spend the afternoon deciding on the recipients of its 25 prestigious research fellowships for 2008-10. I would have loved one: money for three years to undertake a major research project. Alas, I was never clever enough.
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