telling her about them. labour says she should resign. good morning, it's saturday, 28th april. also this morning. victims of crime will be able to challenge parole board decisions under measures being introduced following the case ofjohn worboys, the black—cab rapist. friends for now, but president trump says he will continue to exert maximum pressure on north korea, as he prepares to meet kimjong—un. in sport, the race to the premier league will go down to the wire after fulham beat sunderland to move to second in the championship. premier league relegations could also be confirmed today with west bromich albion and stoke on the brink. everybody in this boat, except you, bushell, is paddling at the same time as everybody else. it's not all plain sailing as i try my hand at dragon racing, one of the fastest growing participation sports in the world.

and matt has the weather. good morning. across a good part of central and eastern england, it stays cloudy, damp and cool throughout this weekend. but to the north and west of the uk, at least there will be a little bit of "specific" targets amid mounting pressure from labour for her to quit, amber rudd issued a series of tweets. she said she hadn't seen a memo detailing figures for the number of deportations but accepted that she should have. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake. days of damning headlines about the treatment of caribbean migrants who lived and worked in britain for decades and increasing pressure for amber rudd to quit over her handling of the saga. home secretary, will you resign over windrush? but on wednesday mps quizzed the home secretary over

the government's wider approach to immigration and it was then that amber rudd said this. targets for removals, when were they set? we don't have targets for removals. she later clarified in the house of commons that targets were set at a local level. there are some offices which are working with them. unfortunately i was not aware of them and i want to be aware of them which is why i'm now putting in place different measures to ensure that that happens. then yesterday, the guardian obtained a memo dated last year copied to the home secretary and her senior team referring directly to national targets. in a series of tweets last night, amber rudd said that she wasn't aware of removal targets, accepted that she should have been and said that she was sorry. the home secretary said she hadn't seen the leaked document although it was copied to her office as, she said, many documents were. she also promised to make a statement in the house of commons on monday.

downing street said the prime minister had full confidence in the home secretary and conservative mps have rallied around her with statements of support. but labour are keeping up the pressure on amber rudd to resign saying that she is hanging by a thread to shield the prime minister. with regis and to bring you some breaking new features coming in this morning. news from the fall that alfie evans, the toddler at the centre of that huge battle over his life—support, the family of alfie evans saying that he had died this morning. on their instagram account, his dad said, my gladiator laid down his dad said, my gladiator laid down his shield and gave his wings at

2:30am. absolutely heartbroken, i love you, my guy. you will know this week alfie's father said they wanted to build bridges with the hospital, they have been locked in a long—running battle with the hospital, number of legal battles over life—support for the toddler who was just 23 months old. he has been at alder hey hospital in liverpool since december 20 16. there had been numerous appeals over what would happen, the parents wanting to take him overseas for care, they were locked in this legal battle over whether that could continue. news this morning being announced on the social media channels of the family that alfie evans has died at the age of 23 months. we will bring you more information as we get it. other news this morning. big changes to the way the parole board in england and wales are being proposed

by the ministry ofjustice today under an overhaul unveiled by the ministry ofjustice. victims of crime will be given more power to contest parole board decisions, the system has been reviewed following the controversy over the decision which was later overturned to release the serial sex offender, john worboys. and in a few minutes we'll speak to nick hardwick, who was until recently, the chair of the parole board. that's at 7.10am. president trump has said he'll continue to apply pressure on north korea to try and rid the peninsula of nuclear weapons. following friday's summit between north and south korea, mr trump said he would forge a deal with the north if it were possible when he meets kimjong—un, in the coming weeks. let's speak to our news correspondent, rupert wingfield—hayes who is in seoul this morning. rupert, what has the reaction been from both sides this morning? because the newspapers have all seen this picture of this historic

handshake. it is seen as a huge move as calming relations between both sides. absolutely and after those rather extraordinary scenes yesterday at the frontier between north and south korea, as you might imagine, great excitement and excitable headlines today. the korean herald, koreans to declare end to korean war, may be getting ahead of itself. every newspaper has this amazing pictures, these two leaders, kim jong—un on the left and president moon on president moon —— leaders, kim jong—un on the left and president moon —— president moon on the right. in the north, week understand the main newspaper has 110w understand the main newspaper has now started publishing pictures of that meeting as well. so north koreans this morning are getting to see pictures of the meeting as well and learn about what happened yesterday. the tone of the coverage

in the two halves of korea is rather different. the official news agency in seoul this morning saying, the historic —— the official news agency in north korea saying, it came to be because of the dear leader's ardent love of the people. the south is being more conservative, the newspapers, saying it was a good start but not much was said clearly about north korea's commitment to denuclearisation and we have to see whether kim jong—un really means it when he says he wants to give up his nuclear weapons. as far as the coverage is concerned, a brief word on the pressure from president trump, who said he will keep pressure on north korea until they get rid of their weapons, more details emerging about the meeting with mrtrump? details emerging about the meeting with mr trump? that's right, we have heard from washington this morning that the state department has

narrowed down the possible venues for a narrowed down the possible venues fora trump, kim narrowed down the possible venues for a trump, kim summit to the mongolian capital or the citystate of singapore. although there still is no news on a date which would be helpful. it could bee in the next few weeks and it appears that president trump is keen to get on and do this now. a pilot scheme designed to make people prove their identity at polling stations before they vote is "deeply flawed", that's according to the the electoral reform society. the campaign group expressed concern that some legitimate voters could be put off. the measures, which are intended to reduce voterfraud, are being tested in five council areas in next week's local elections. an estimated 50 million years of human life could be lost in the uk if air pollution targets are not met, according to new research. a study led by king's college london suggests that sticking to the targets in the climate change act would have significant health benefits.

the report authors say the study is the first to examine the long term impact on life expectancy of air pollution policy in britain. a former policeman suspected of committing dozens of rapes and murders has appeared in court in the united states. joseph deangelo is alleged to be the so—called golden state killer, whose crimes terrorised california in the 1970s and 80s. prosecutors say they tracked him down with the help of genetic information from websites used to trace family ancestry. those are the main news stories this morning. victims of serious crime will be able to challenge decisions made by the parole board for the first time under sweeping reforms announced today. the proposals come in the wake of the case of the black cab rapistjohn worboys. nick hardwick was the chair of the parole board for england and wales until he stepped down shortly before the decision to release worboys was overturned. hejoins us now.

good morning and thank you very much for joining good morning and thank you very much forjoining us. good morning and thank you very much for joining us. can good morning and thank you very much forjoining us. can ijust ask first of all, take us back to the actual role of the parole board. it's to decide whether a prisoner should be released and you are making around 25,000 decisions every year, so how do you make them? the critical thing is what the law requires us to do. 0r requires the parole board to do is decide whether prisoner is now safe to be released. what the parole board can't do is decide whether they are guilty or not guilty of offences for which they have not been charged. and it cannot, in a sense, second—guess the judge at the time of the trial and save the prisoner should serve more or less time than the judge has said. so you are deciding whether they are safe to be released. and with these changes, it will now allow people to be able to challenge the ruling is,

so they will be able to find out information about how you have made that decision and challenge it, what i bought on that happening?” that decision and challenge it, what i bought on that happening? i think these are welcome changes as far as they go, and do what i and the pa role they go, and do what i and the parole board had been calling for since before thejohn worboys case. it isa since before thejohn worboys case. it is a tribute to the success of the victims in the worboys case, these are improvements. i am concerned about what the changes do not do, they do not say anything about how it will be resourced and if the ministry ofjustice mean what they say and they are going to put their money where their mouth is, it doesn't say anything about correcting the mistakes that the ministry ofjustice got wrong in the worboys case and it doesn't say anything about the independence of the parole board which is crucial if they are going to be accountable for their decisions. you make the decisions made on the information you are given and that's not going to change? they haven't said anything about that. the parole

board got things wrong in this case and will have always accepted that but so have the ministry ofjustice and they have not accepted that at all. i miss you accept you have got things wrong, you won't do the right things wrong, you won't do the right things to make sure it doesn't happen again. would these changes have made any difference to thejohn worboys case? the difference it could have made is we could have explained our decision much more in a way that we were not able to before, and things could have been challenged without going through the rigmarole of a judicial review. and both of those things would have been good and welcome. would hit have made it difference to the decision? —— would it have made a difference? no, they have not addressed the evidence that the parole board uses to make its decisions. it would have made it possible that if people think the parole board has got a decision wrong, it would be easier to challenge it and i think that is right and proper. any public wadi ought to be challenged for the

decision it —— any public body ought to be challengeable for the decision it makes. you have said that it should be more transparent but there are probably some victims who do not wa nt are probably some victims who do not want that details to be made public so how do you make the balance between the transparency and not making victims feel worse? between the transparency and not making victims feel worse ?m between the transparency and not making victims feel worse? if you have been a victim of a horrible crime and the parole board is not releasing someone, you may not want the details released every couple of yea rs the details released every couple of years when they come up for parole. you cannot open everything up, and you need to keep some things private but i think you can provide a full explanation of the decision and the evidence considered while still keeping confidential personal details of the victims or other people involved. so a balance has got to be struck, but on the whole, openjustice of got to be struck, but on the whole, open justice of the right thing to do. given everything that's happened and the fact that you decided to leave the parole board, do you think

that the right thing to do?” leave the parole board, do you think that the right thing to do? i didn't have much choice about leaving, i did not decide to leave, i was told that my position was untenable. and i think you could look at lots of things happening recently where people in senior positions have made mistakes, some are required to resign, some in some littlejobs mistakes, some are required to resign, some in some little jobs are not. what do you think you will do next? —— some in some politicaljobs are not. i do some academic work, theissueis are not. i do some academic work, the issue is about the independence of the parole board, which is a court, not being subject to political pressure, they have not addressed that in this review which isa addressed that in this review which is a big gap. thank you for your time. here's matt with a look at this morning's weather. you were saying earlier, it was a fine day, it is part of western scotla nd fine day, it is part of western scotland that have the fine day,

some of you will have some sunshine but it is another indoorjobs kind of saturday for other people. the rain has been pushing into the naughty by and large but we have got the legacy of rain in the bristol channel, south—east wales, and lincolnshire. heavy bursts if you are on the move but drier moments as well. it will not rain all day long. north and west, the morning cloud will break up, sunny spells coming through but it will be enough to set offa through but it will be enough to set off a few showers. this afternoon there will be one or two isolated showers towards wales and the south—west, sunshine in between, brightening up in the south—east competitor this morning, but lincolnshire, and what we have sunny spells... avoid the showers and temperatures are up to 13 degrees, seven or eight celsius in part of the midlands. in tonight, the cloud and rain will gradually fizzle out. it will take a

while as part of lincolnshire, north east midland and yorkshire. some more dry spells in the north and west. clear skies, so we could see a frost tonight into tomorrow morning. a bit ofa frost tonight into tomorrow morning. a bit of a chilly start to sunday but the morning sunshine, a lovely sunrise for many, a few mist and fog patches which will clear. 0ne sunrise for many, a few mist and fog patches which will clear. one or two showers will develop to the north and west but the big difference will be through parts of central, eastern england, tomorrow morning not quite as wet. dry weather for a time, a bit of drizzle but then later the wind will pick up and persistent rain pushes into the south—east. another cool day but more call across part of a man into monday. this area of low pressure will bring a torrid day for some across central and eastern england. heavy and persistent rain which could lead to minor flooding, strong to go persistent rain which could lead to minorflooding, strong to go 1a, even minorflooding, strong to go 1a, eve n severe minorflooding, strong to go 1a, even severe gale force around the coast. rough seas in the north sea and the rain moves west through the day. not a great date to be on the

move. some sleet and snow could be on the tops of the health of the south. temperatures for five celsius. scotland, northern ireland and the far west of england and wales, dry and bright with a few showers. i cannot leave you with two negative thoughts, temperatures for all 5 degrees across the south for some on monday but by the time you to friday, it should all feel a bit warmer and temperatures the eastern areas should be in the mid—or high teens. let's return to the breaking story, that alfie evans, the toddler that the centre of a long—running legal dispute between the appearance and health officials, news this morning oi'i health officials, news this morning on the family social media account that alfie evans has died. his father has posted on social media is

saying, my gladiator laid down his shield and gained his wings at 2:30 a:m.. shield and gained his wings at 2:30 a: m.. absolutely shield and gained his wings at 2:30 a:m.. absolutely heartbroken. i love you. it's been a long—running legal battle, lots of complications as far as the family and health officials have been concerned. let's look back at what's been involved. to has the details. for the first weeks of his life, he seemed healthy and well, but then develop problems and well, but then develop problems and was admitted to hospital where scans showed his brain was being destroyed. the little boy spent a yearin destroyed. the little boy spent a year in intensive care before doctors said they felt his life support should be stopped. alfie's pa rents support should be stopped. alfie's parents kate and tom strongly disagreed with the medical view that their son could not be helped. he has shown the biggest fight and that is what has given us the drive to

get through this. it's heartbreaking knowing that the doctors can't find the answer so they're giving up on alfie. if you're going to give up on them, please reassured us. the couple began a long legal battle. they took their case through all the available courts several times in the uk and twice to europe. they changed their lawyers more than six times. alfie's father tom, who is 21, even representing himself on one occasion. no legal team today. 21, even representing himself on one occasion. no legalteam today. iam on my own with my mum and dad. we need an adjournment today. and throughout it all, the family have had vocal support, initially from a group of mothers and children, but increasingly from a growing social media campaign. the self styled alfie's army has more than 4000 followers and in recent weeks, campaigners have turned up to campaigners have turned up to campaign outside alder hey. it

hasn't always been peaceful. 0n campaign outside alder hey. it hasn't always been peaceful. on one evening, protesters tried to force their way inside. hospital management published an open letter saying, as staff have received a barrage of a highly abusive and threatening language and behaviour that has shocked us all. alfie's plight has made international headlines, especially in italy. alfie's parents wanted to airlift into a hospital in rome with connections to the vatican. thom evans connections to the vatican. thom eva ns was connections to the vatican. thom evans was granted an audience with the pope, who backed his case, and alfie was granted italian citizenship. there was also support from poland, a tweet from the president and a hospital visit from these polish woman. i saw the post yesterday from alfie's father saying thank you so much, thank you to the international community for being with me. we are human. outside the

hospital, campaigners had kept vigil, united behind their common cause. while inside, after his ventilation was switched off, alfie hung on fridays. his family clung to hope, as he held on to life. until eventually, there was no more fight. and with his parents by his side, the little boy slipped away. that's alfie evans there, who has died at the age of 23 months. his pa rents died at the age of 23 months. his parents reported that news this morning on social media. mencap says its vision is a world where people with a learning disability are valued equally, listened to and included. but today questions are being raised about the standards of care that they offer. it comes after the death of a young man in one of its homes. a former government advisor has told this programme that the charity faces a conflict of interest, it needs to decide if it

is a service provider ora campaign group. breakfast‘s jayne mccubbin reports. danny tozer loved tea, china teapots, trampolines. he had learning disabilities, autism and epilepsy. and in 2013 he moved into a mencap care home. i thought, that's great, we'll get involved, we'll have meetings, we'll see how it all works, we'll be part of the mencap family. that never appeared at all, it was a house which is run under its own rules, run by the staff, some of whom perhaps one would rather wish they weren't running it. danny died after having a seizure here in 2015. in the years before, his family raised numerous concerns about poor staffing levels, a lack of activities and danny's needs not being met. concerns which were echoed in a cqc report and an independent report commissioned by the council. but it took two years for the family to get scrutiny at an inquest. i think if we hadn't really pushed things, we might possibly never have heard anything again from anyone. danny's family took this scrapbook

to the inquest to remind witnesses of his life. witnesses spoke of a care plan which said he should be checked every ten minutes but he had a fatal seizure after being unobserved for about 30. the coroner ruled he died of natural causes. there was no neglect. but he said the charity had poorly communicated with the family. we feel we are, as families, up against a big system. i think it also indicates that the lives of people with learning disabilities aren't as important as those as of other people. no neglect, but how do you think this reflects on mencap? well, they didn't find neglect but i think if you listen to the evidence during the two weeks, there were a lot of concerns about mencap and i don't think these are going away. we are so very sorry that danny died. mr and mrs tozer felt that at times mencap fell short of the high standards that we set ourselves. this is a huge concern to us.

and we very much hope that they will work with us should they wish to. are you proud of the service that's been described during the inquest? as said, we need to reflect on the outcome of the inquest... but ijust want in this moment to ask. the description of this service has been one that you are proud of? yes. but that is not an opinion shared widely by those who have followed this inquest. this inquest hasn'tjust shone a light on danny's death but his life and it has led one former government adviser on learning disabilities to tell us that he believes mencap can no longer claim to be the voice of learning disabilities. rob greig, one—time national director of learning disabilities charity learning disability england said, this has highlighted the conflict—of—interest royal mencap has in being a major provider of services whilst at the same time claiming to be an organisation that campaigns on behalf of people with learning disabilities. it should choose which it wishes to be.

the charity scope has decided you can't do both, especially against the backdrop of falling social care budgets. this month it will hand over the keys to its very last care home. his family miss him, his friends miss him, he lit up our lives. he was fun to be with. you just have to live with that, really, and miss danny every day. a huge hole. derek lewis is the chair of mencap, and hejoins us now. how do you feel watching that peace and healing the criticisms against mencap? first of all, desperately sad. danny was a lively, energetic, engaging young man and his early death as a matter for a real sadness for all of us. and our sympathy goes to the parents, he had to endure his

early death, but also had to go through a very traumatic two weeks ofan through a very traumatic two weeks of an inquest into the reasons for that death. he was a much loved boy. the people who looked after him were very dedicated to him, loved him, they were distraught at his death. and it has been very traumatic for them, too, going through this inquest. that is done and the coroner has given his verdict, which is that the death was due to natural causes related to his epilepsy and there was no neglect involved. so we remain very sad and very sympathetic to all who have suffered as a result. but there have been criticisms, because the care quality commission found feelings and the family were clearly not happy. they talked about the lack of communication with mencap. i do those things go hand in hand? clearly, the coroner identified

billions of communication between mencap, mrand mrs billions of communication between mencap, mr and mrs tozer and the city of york and action has been taken to address those. a number of actions §§§fi since as the way suchras the way we transfer qqqdle learning disabilities from one with learning disabilitiesiremeene, ‘to with learning disabilitiesiremeene, ‘ to another to ensure with learning disabilitiesiremeene, ‘to another to ensure that with learning disabilitiesiremeene, ‘ to another to ensure that that carer to another to ensure that that is seamless. but the quality of care, they're caving nature of it, was of a very high standard, and the staff they were 11mg in country, and fg of pa; overrating “a?“ out of the is the “a?“ out of the - is the idea coming out of the report is the idea ofa coming out of the report is the idea of a conflict of interest. you cannot possibly be a campaigner for rights of people with disabilities and also providing the services for them, because it clearly issues you have to contend with in terms of budget and care provision. scope has handed over its care facilities for exactly that reason. why haven't you

done the same? that's a perfectly reasonable question. mencap has been around for 70 years, dedicated to improving the lives of those with learning disabilities. 0ur improving the lives of those with learning disabilities. our view is that it does not involve a conflict—of—interest. in fact, there are significant benefits. it does 5 i are significant benefits. it does not a: a to stand not inhibit our willingness to stand up not inhibit our willingness to stand up to government, to challenge government on policy. how can you challenge government on policy when you yourselves are not providing good enough care? overall, mencap has an excellent record in terms of care. 0ver has an excellent record in terms of care. over 95% of the services we provide are rated good or outstanding by the cqc. we are among the leaders in the quality of care we provide. they are not perfect. things go wrong from time to time and we are always learning, but that doesn't stop us telling government what we think about their policies and about funding levels. the fact

that we know learning disability so well through our expedient in providing services gives us the expertise and experience to do that more effectively with government and gives us additional credibility. it's interesting you talk about funding, because ultimately, when we talk about care, it comes down to very tough decisions about funding. is the money there for the people that need it? if you are campaigning, proposing more money and resources for a kid of people that need it, and yet at the same time, you're the one trying to balance the books of being a provider, how do you square that circle? we don't compromise for funding reasons on the care we provide. but you must take tough decisions. we will not take on provision of services unless we believe the funding is adequate. but we are vocal in persuading government that more funding is needed. we have been at the forefront of asking government to make sure that the cost of sleep ins

is properly funded. we're at the forefront of persuading local authorities to provide additional funding so that we can pay people more for this very difficult work that they disabilities. g a re elf! are outstandin. are the then? i a then? 22:21? there then? i ; there i room "ae'fle meg—j! , . there. we to