It was my privilege to be invited to attend a 2030 Vision for the Cambridge sub region debate to discuss business and retailing. This was a serious group of people from business, universities and politics. I was one of the four speakers and my subject was “politics and Business”. At the start everyone spent 2 Read more

Yesterday was full cabinet. This is where the majority of formal decisions are made. The other place is full council. We had a full agenda including a number of petitions. We also had guests from Indonesia, who were hosted by the World Bank. They wanted to see our democracy in action which they seemed to Read more

Cambridgeshire is bucking the national trend by increasing the number of babies under the age of one placed with adopters. National statistics have focussed on the number of adoption orders made for children of that age – a legal process which has to be completed to confirm the adoption. Although no adoption orders were made Read more

As always leaders should meet and share ideas. Yesterday, it was my pleasure to visit Norwich to explain how successful sharing our back office function with Northamptonshire has been to the Leader of Norfolk County Council. They seemed impressed with what we had achieved and I was impressed by the forward thinking, dynamic leadership in Read more