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Back Page: My week - Humbled by the verve of Hackney's youth

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Monday: Mondays are great because they're the one chance I get to take my two children to school.

Get to the office with coffee in hand to meet my counterparts from the youth offending team and secondary support. We're doing some exciting work on joining up our services and discuss ways of further improving co-ordination. I move from this to a meeting looking at the ICT systems for the integrated service - fascinating but complicating stuff. I have back-to-back meetings for the rest of the day which leaves me responding to emails late into the night.

Tuesday: Meet with a colleague from regeneration to discuss a joint European Social Fund bid to help improve the number of young people in work and training. This is about delivering services at a neighbourhood level. I speak to the lead councillor for young people every week. Today, we talk about opening a new club.

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