Today was about building relationships and information gathering. Informative attendance, as an observer, at a Schools Forum in the morning then meeting the Children's Local Safeguarding Board representatives in the afternoon.

Everyone is so committed to wanting to do their best for all the children of Cornwall; the challenge is to contribute to harnessing all that energy and potential towards a single objective. The tasks facing those dedicated people is so great yet there is a belief that they will deliver.

Now I'm off to a Parish Council meeting - another group of committed individuals who, apart from the clerk, are all unpaid yet focussed on trying to do what is best for their community; usually without any thanks.