Susie Roberts says she likes a challenge. That is just as well, as next month she will take up the reins as the first chief executive of the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers (APYCO). Her new position will be quite different from her current role as head of Bracknell Forest's youth and community service: she will be working from her home in a leafy Surrey village rather than based in Bracknell Forest Borough Council's town centre offices, for a start. And as the first person in the role, she will be building her job from scratch. "We'll be learning together," she says. "I used to be the chair of APYCO so I know how difficult it is to get things done when it is not your fulltime job; the organisation has never previously had the capacity to do a lot."
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