Shropshire’s High Sheriff warns over services for the young
Tuesday 28th September 2010, 7:00PM BST.
Shropshire’s High Sheriff gave his “half-term” report with the hope that even when cuts were having to be made, ways could be found “to continue funding for our young people or long term costs may be considerable.”
At Shrewsbury School, where he is a governor, Hugh Trevor-Jones talked of the importance of volunteers and told guests representing all walks of county life how he is using his term in the 1000-year-old office “to support and encourage young people and prepare them for citizenship.”
Mr Trevor-Jones said that projects he had visited with the same aims included a Newport youth café, a similar Bridgnorth club with its own music room and in November, he was opening the Dawley youth club.
He also paid tribute to “wonderful” cadet units, police cadets, community policing and “the 900 or so young carers in the county helping to care for someone at home. It is also the Girl Guides centenary year, Scouting has seen its biggest growth for 40 years with Shropshire well above the national average”.
There was praise for those in all areas of Shropshire who helped organisations thrive and for his wife Roly’s support. Pledging to continue doing his best through the rest of his year, Mr Trevor-Jones added: “I like to think I am helping look after the county.”
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I thought the piece about the “Freewomen” of Shrewsbury was funny enough, but you’re really on a roll now!!!
Anyone needs a really good laugh should look at the Wikipedia entry for “High Sheriffs”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff
So the next one is appointed from a list of nominees chosen by his predecessor, the final appointment is made by the monarch pricking a hole in a piece of parchment with a bodkin!
I particularly liked the part entitled “Responsibilities”
Contemporary high sheriffs have few genuine responsibilities and their functions are largely representational:
* Attendance at Royal visits to the county.
* Proclamation of the accession of a new sovereign.
* They usually act as the returning officer for parliamentary elections in county constituencies and see to the annual appointment of an undersheriff.
* Attendance at the opening ceremony when a High Court judge goes on circuit.
* Execution of High Court writs.
* Appointment of under-sheriffs to act as deputies.
Most of the high sheriff’s work is delegated; for example, the local police now protect judges and courts, so that in effect the post of high sheriff is essentially a ceremonial post. Theoretical responsibilities include the well-being and protection of High Court judges, and attending them in court; and the maintenance of the loyalty of subjects to the Crown.
Still, it’s one way of keeping chinless wonders off the streets!!
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I like the way he promotes the concept of young people working in the voluntary sector.
Has he got a spare room or several hundred that can accomodate all these young willing volunteers preferably with a big kitchen?
They can gain further skills whilst watching their student debt gradually increase or watch their more fortunate contemporaries troll off to uni paid for by mummy and daddy.
Mind you being a carer is a darn site easier than getting a placement as a police cadet though you are far less likely to have skills that will make for a lucrative career or pay off your loan as a volunteer carer.
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