When Janet Neale agreed to take on a new job as a community learning officer at Warwickshire Council she had no idea what she was letting herself in for. "I started with a blank piece of paper," she recalls. "I'd worked for the education department forever, in different guises, but as this was a new role I had nobody to follow."
That was back in October 2003. Now the role is much clearer and Neale spends most of her time forging links between the county's extended schools and other parts of the community, such as Connexions, further education colleges, primary care trusts and voluntary sector organisations.
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