Set out like this I began to think how logical and straightforward my job sounded - in reality this is sometimes far removed from the truth. Our work is very diverse and often moves from one extreme to the other. On one day Jim Keating , the EBP Director, and I were talking to the Managing Director of Herberts, a local paint manufacturing company, about how his organisation might become involved in the local education scene. Jim and I have to be prepared to talk and work with people, young and not so young, from a variety of different backgrounds and with a range of differing experiences.
Numbers are an important part of our work.
These targets have to be met in order that we keep our funding. Ideally we like to be less constrained by the numbers game, but we continue to count as we need the funding to support our work. Planning programmes or new activities is never easy. We work with schools, young people and employers, trying to juggle a number of conflicting timescales. Pressures sometimes make it difficult for organisations to commit to a given activity.