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The challenges of recruiting schools! You are so proud of your shiny mentoring programme! You are in awe of the amazing mentors you have signed up. You have a great team all geared up and ready to deliver the best programmes ever. You even have the funding in place thanks to your hard-earned Careers & Enterprise […]

I wrote this piece on a stationary Virgin train in Preston train station trying to return home ‘down South’ after a day on business visiting the Government’s social mobility Opportunity Area team and partners in Blackpool. Having spent two hours stranded in Preston, it promised to be a long journey home. But it made me consider other […]

“Me?! You want ME to be your mentor?!” That was pretty much my reaction when I was approached by an individual starting out as a civil servant to become their mentor a number of years ago. I was still relatively junior in my Civil Service career, coping with a young family and trying to work […]