Year's End

Things have certainly quietened down over the last two/three weeks, and although I have had some meetings they haven’t been quite so ‘wall-to-wall’ of late.  That having said I’ve still be chasing up on some casework issues, some that have been dragging on for ages.  Tempting fate of course but hopefully this time next week a couple of them will have been sorted at long last.  Fingers crossed!

One event of interest was when I went up to Seaview school to be interviewed by a couple of year 6 pupils, Joshua & Daniel.  One asked the questions whilst the other ‘filmed’ me using an Ipad.  I’m very grateful they gave me a copy of the questions before I went as I would have been floored by some of them, but in the end it passed off OK (I think!)  And I have to say that the older I get the more amazed I am at how adept children can be.  These Ipads are making such a big difference to their levels of confidence.

And the other meeting to mention is the working group I’ve joined to look at what the council itself could be doing about payday loan companies.  As I’ve mentioned before now I am very involved in the Swansea Bay Fair Credit group.  Whilst there has been some recent success, such as the government finally agreeing to set a cap on interest rates, there is still much to do. 

Well that’s it for now, signing off for Christmas,  
and here's wishing you a great festive season.

Cheers all!

Les