Had a bit of a "jolly" yesterday - I was invited to go to St James' Palace to watch some of Cheshire's finest get presented with their Gold D of E awards, and got a chance to meet the Duke of Edinburgh.
A lot of the Childrens services in Cheshire East are "outsourced" to a company called Connexions. "Outsourced" deserves the quotes because the company is actually owned by the council (or rather councils, as we share it with West Cheshire and Warrington) so it's a bit unclear if this really counts as outsourcing or not.
But anyway...because we own it a couple of Councillors sit on the board. I am one of them, and take a great interest in what they do as well as trying to help them deliver on targets and on value for money.
They were asked by the DofE to send two "VIP's" down for the ceremony so they asked members of the board. Unfortunately, only one VIP was available so they had to do with me as the other.
Apart from having an awful journey there and back it was a great day. In all I exchanged two sentances with the Duke and met a few notables, but the real highlight was seeing all the gold award holders who had worked so hard to be there.
An inspiration to us all.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
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