Allan Siao Ming Witherick

This is where the slog starts to review our current performance, and where we want to be. Part of the problem is the change where funding just isn’t growing fast enough to match needs while at the same time considering how our targets influence other areas.
Youth issues is a great example- we need to push partners to provide more activities for youth, or places for them to go if we are to help reduce anti-social behaviour.

This was something that I couldn’t decide if I was looking forward to. Talking in schools can be daunting:

• Will they heckle?
• Will I be that boring speaker I hated when I was at school?
• Will I make a mess of it?

In the end the feedback I had was relatively good, nobody snored, no heckling and they did seem to enjoy it.
Enough so that I might already be lined up for one or two visits to the year group which took part in the “I’m a Councillor get me out of here.” as well as politics students class.

One of the time limited groups to look into an area in depth.
Today included presentation and questions on:

• Victim Support - their work supporting both wittnesses and victims of crime
• MIDAS - a tool to map crime information and work towards safer communities