My Week - Where is the media when needed?

Of course, no one from the press was there to report the young people's great achievements. Guess there would have been if Phil Harding, the Time Team archaeologist who was presenting the awards, had been dishing out Asbos instead.

Monday Take the car in for an MOT followed by a meeting about Criminal Records Bureau checks. I feel there's a similarity here: both provide a semblance of confidence on the day the checks happen, but there are no ongoing guarantees. Safeguarding is so important but the national panic isn't helping.

Tuesday Meeting with team leaders to discuss an "equitable redistribution" of the staffing budget. Sounds boring, I know, but there will be some winners and some losers. The formula is much fairer than our historical approach. We've included an analysis of both deprivation and sparsity of resources, alongside the usual population figures. It will determine the allocation by community area.