death of the published into the death of the toddler, logan mwangi. let'sjoin that press conference now and listen in. , a, , that press conference now and listen in. the board has the statutory resnonsibility _ in. the board has the statutory responsibility to _ in. the board has the statutory responsibility to carry - in. the board has the statutory responsibility to carry out - in. the board has the statutory responsibility to carry out child i responsibility to carry out child practice reviews in cases where abuse or neglect of a child is known or suspected and the child has either died, sustained a potentially life threatening injury or sustained serious impairment of health or development. today the board has published a child practice review in relation to logan mwangi. this press conference has been arranged to share with you the findings of the review, which has been led by an independent chair and to respond to any questions that you may have. our services work with many vulnerable children and adults and our staff work tirelessly to care and support for people and do everything they can to protect the most vulnerable from harm. in most cases, the

systems and services designed to safeguard vulnerable people work. when a tragedy like this happens, it is essential that we fully understand whether any further measures we need to take to improve our arrangements. measures we need to take to improve ourarrangements. logan measures we need to take to improve our arrangements. logan is sadly no longer with us do to the horrendous actions of the individuals responsible for his unnecessary and untimely death. the very people who should have cared for him, his mother and her partner are now serving lengthy prison sentences for the appalling crime. those responsible for this responsible crime have been brought tojustice, however it is vitally important we understand the circumstances that preceded logan's murder and the role of our services so we can ensure our safeguarding arrangements are as is possible. the board have accepted in

full the findings of the child practice review that is published today. this review, amongst another —— a number of other, discovered failings where agency should hand could have acted different. we take full responsible of the and apologise. we have engaged with logan's father throughout the process and offered an apology to him for the things that we recognise that should have been done differently by the agencies involved any care of his enforced what we must now do is fully impairment the recommendations made in this review and in doing so, improve our safeguarding practice to prevent this from having the —— happening again. i will now hand over to the independent chair of the multi—agency panel that undertook the review, who will present the

findings and recommendations of the report. findings and recommendations of the re ort. . ~ findings and recommendations of the reort. . ~' ,, findings and recommendations of the reort. . ~' a findings and recommendations of the reort. ., ~ a. ., ., findings and recommendations of the reort. ., ., ., , report. thank you. as chair of this child practice _ report. thank you. as chair of this child practice review, _ report. thank you. as chair of this child practice review, i— report. thank you. as chair of this child practice review, iwill- report. thank you. as chair of this child practice review, i will today. child practice review, iwill today present— child practice review, iwill today present our findings into the circumstances that led to the murder of logan _ circumstances that led to the murder of logan mwangi. the purpose of a review _ of logan mwangi. the purpose of a review is _ of logan mwangi. the purpose of a review is to — of logan mwangi. the purpose of a review is to identify learning to improve — review is to identify learning to improve support, and support future safeguarding practice. to this end, the child _ safeguarding practice. to this end, the child practice review was made above _ the child practice review was made above senior representatives of all of the _ above senior representatives of all of the agencies involved with logan. the role _ of the agencies involved with logan. the role of _ of the agencies involved with logan. the role of the panel was to look at what _ the role of the panel was to look at what happened and how services responded to these events. and members — responded to these events. and members have scrutinised in detail all multi—agency information. the review— all multi—agency information. the review held two learning events, one with the _ review held two learning events, one with the front—line workers directly involved _ with the front—line workers directly involved with logan's case, and the second _ involved with logan's case, and the second with — involved with logan's case, and the second with their managers. logan's primary— second with their managers. logan's primary school teacher remember two a child _ primary school teacher remember two a child with _ primary school teacher remember two a child with a ready smile, who was

inquisitive — a child with a ready smile, who was inquisitive and joined —— enjoy lessons, — inquisitive and joined —— enjoy lessons, especially when they are outdoors — lessons, especially when they are outdoors where he could have fun with his _ outdoors where he could have fun with his school friends. he loved games— with his school friends. he loved games like hide and seek or playing beam _ games like hide and seek or playing beam superheroes will top the always wanted _ beam superheroes will top the always wanted to _ beam superheroes will top the always wanted to be spider—man. the reviewer— wanted to be spider—man. the reviewer and i met logan's father, ben mwangi, his paternal grandmother and aunt _ ben mwangi, his paternal grandmother and aunt and uncle to hear from them what their— and aunt and uncle to hear from them what their questions were of the agencies — what their questions were of the agencies and also to feedback our findings _ agencies and also to feedback our findings and recommendations. they have throughout this whole time responded with immense dignity, despite _ responded with immense dignity, despite the overwhelming sense of loss, despite the overwhelming sense of loss. grief— despite the overwhelming sense of loss, grief and incomprehension they have had _ loss, grief and incomprehension they have had over logan's tragic death. on have had over logan's tragic death. 0n behaif— have had over logan's tragic death. on behalf of the panel, i want to thank— on behalf of the panel, i want to thank them for their steadfast help they were — thank them for their steadfast help they were ready to give us despite they were ready to give us despite the obvious pain and suffering they were having to endure in doing so. in

were having to endure in doing so. in the _ were having to endure in doing so. in the course — were having to endure in doing so. in the course of this investigation, the reviewer and i interviewed logan's — the reviewer and i interviewed logan's mother in prison, his maternal— logan's mother in prison, his maternal grandmother, we also spoke with child _ maternal grandmother, we also spoke with child y _ maternal grandmother, we also spoke with child y ps mother. logan was murdered — with child y ps mother. logan was murdered in 2021 and injune 2022, angharad _ murdered in 2021 and injune 2022, angharad williamson and her partner john cole _ angharad williamson and her partner john cole and child y had been sentenced for this murder of this little _ sentenced for this murder of this little hov — sentenced for this murder of this little boy. both of the adults would -- were _ little boy. both of the adults would —— were have found to have lied to children— —— were have found to have lied to children services. i will now turn to the _ children services. i will now turn to the findings of the panel. the panel— to the findings of the panel. the panel have identified areas of learning — panel have identified areas of learning that are addressing our recommendations, howeverthis recommendations, however this afternoon — recommendations, however this afternoon i recommendations, howeverthis afternoon i will focus on the four key themes of the review. the first of these _ key themes of the review. the first of these themes was a significant

and immediate impact of the covid—19 restrictions— and immediate impact of the covid—19 restrictions on general working practices _ restrictions on general working practices. the impact of covid—19 affected — practices. the impact of covid—19 affected all organisations' ability to deliver and maintain services and respond _ to deliver and maintain services and respond to— to deliver and maintain services and respond to need. in terms of this case: _ respond to need. in terms of this case, the — respond to need. in terms of this case, the following areas were significantly affected by the pandemic. covid—19 and the need to restrict— pandemic. covid—19 and the need to restrict contact to prevent the spread — restrict contact to prevent the spread of— restrict contact to prevent the spread of infection was believed to have been— spread of infection was believed to have been used instrumentally by the family— have been used instrumentally by the family to _ have been used instrumentally by the family to evade scrutiny by agencies. the restrictions meant that the — agencies. the restrictions meant that the behaviour that would normally have led to a response, such _ normally have led to a response, such as _ normally have led to a response, such as a — normally have led to a response, such as a child missing from school, or a delay— such as a child missing from school, or a delay in — such as a child missing from school, or a delay in seeking medical assistance following an injury, were seen as— assistance following an injury, were seen as a _ assistance following an injury, were seen as a consequence of covid—19. the pandemic also resulted in significant changes to how duties were _ significant changes to how duties were carried out to the need to protect— were carried out to the need to protect staff and the public from

infection — protect staff and the public from infection. in line with the current government guidelines, which change significantly throughout the pandemic. remote contact by phone or other digital platforms were used in place _ other digital platforms were used in place of— other digital platforms were used in place of the face—to—face meetings, to an _ place of the face—to—face meetings, to an extent never seen before, and in many— to an extent never seen before, and in many circumstances, for a time became _ in many circumstances, for a time became the — in many circumstances, for a time became the norm. this undoubtedly had an— became the norm. this undoubtedly had an impact on the robustness of the assessment. these limitations were mirrored within the broader structure — were mirrored within the broader structure of the child protection environment. for example, child protection — environment. for example, child protection conferences, gp visits were _ protection conferences, gp visits were all— protection conferences, gp visits were all mostly carried out remotely. the second theme identified two system and processes. logan _ identified two system and processes. logan was _ identified two system and processes. logan was first taken to hospital in mid—august 2020, following him allegedly falling down the stairs.

hospital staff notified children's services — hospital staff notified children's services emergency duty team, they had concerns in respect of the delayed — had concerns in respect of the delayed presentation, upon further examination, other injuries were noted _ examination, other injuries were noted was — examination, other injuries were noted was not the explanation provided — noted was not the explanation provided by his mother, angharad williamson, was apparently accepted. the further— williamson, was apparently accepted. the further injury subsidy —— injuries— the further injury subsidy —— injuries observed were not shared or referred _ injuries observed were not shared or referred to _ injuries observed were not shared or referred to children's services. this— referred to children's services. this was— referred to children's services. this was a _ referred to children's services. this was a significant missed opportunity for logan. had further information from health been shared, it most— information from health been shared, it most likely, though we cannot say for sure. _ it most likely, though we cannot say for sure, because of hindsight bias, would _ for sure, because of hindsight bias, would have — for sure, because of hindsight bias, would have triggered a child protection assessment in line with the joint _ protection assessment in line with the joint agreed guidelines. the nature _ the joint agreed guidelines. the nature of— the joint agreed guidelines. the nature of those injuries clearly met the threshold. this tragedy has shown— the threshold. this tragedy has shown that multi—agent —— that the multi—agency is safeguarding her was not a brother time to deliver information sharing, case discussion

and decision—making within the relevant — and decision—making within the relevant agencies, as well as it was intended _ relevant agencies, as well as it was intended to — relevant agencies, as well as it was intended to do. this critically affected _ intended to do. this critically affected the ability of agencies involved to respond to this case, as no agency— involved to respond to this case, as no agency was ever able to develop a full picture _ no agency was ever able to develop a full picture of what was happening, despite _ full picture of what was happening, despite all agencies having important pieces of information. we learned _ important pieces of information. we learned from the trial that the family— learned from the trial that the family were well— known within learned from the trial that the family were well—known within the local community and many neighbours had concerns for the children within the familv — had concerns for the children within the family. it is important the general— the family. it is important the general public have the confidence to report _ general public have the confidence to report such concerns and a clear route _ to report such concerns and a clear route to _ to report such concerns and a clear route to do — to report such concerns and a clear route to do so. the third theme identified — route to do so. the third theme identified by the panel relates to multi—agency practice and practice knowledge. otherthan multi—agency practice and practice knowledge. other than his limited time in _ knowledge. other than his limited time in school, logan was not seen on his— time in school, logan was not seen on his own — time in school, logan was not seen on his own outside of the family due

to covid-i9~ — on his own outside of the family due to covid—19. children services made a decision— to covid—19. children services made a decision not to notify logan's father— a decision not to notify logan's father of— a decision not to notify logan's father of their involvement with logan, — father of their involvement with logan, despite there being a statutory duty for them to do so. this family— statutory duty for them to do so. this family was complex and known to be this family was complex and known to he volatile. _ this family was complex and known to be volatile, with a number of agencies _ be volatile, with a number of agencies involved. the panel believed _ agencies involved. the panel believed this case has shown an inconsistent approach to the quality assurance _ inconsistent approach to the quality assurance of casework and assessments within children's services _ assessments within children's services. there were inconsistencies with any— services. there were inconsistencies with any risk— services. there were inconsistencies with any risk assessments undertaken, there was a variable quality— undertaken, there was a variable quality of— undertaken, there was a variable quality of analysis and challenge evident — quality of analysis and challenge evident within the assessments viewed — evident within the assessments viewed by the panel. multi—agency care and _ viewed by the panel. multi—agency care and support plans appear to have _ care and support plans appear to have lreen— care and support plans appear to have been stepped down and oversight correspondingly reduced with no change — correspondingly reduced with no change in — correspondingly reduced with no change in circumstances evident to the panel— change in circumstances evident to the panel that would have justified this. john— the panel that would have justified this. john cole it seems, was able

to effectively manipulate all those around _ to effectively manipulate all those around him, as did logan's mother angharad _ around him, as did logan's mother angharad williamson. the panel found no evidence _ angharad williamson. the panel found no evidence that logan was treated differently by professionals due to his race, _ differently by professionals due to his race, however the fact that logan — his race, however the fact that logan was _ his race, however the fact that logan was of a different race and ethnicity— logan was of a different race and ethnicity within his family and wider— ethnicity within his family and wider community and what that might have meant for logan was not considered by professionals. the allegations that surfaced in the trial that — allegations that surfaced in the trial thatjohn cole was allegations that surfaced in the trial that john cole was part of a far right — trial that john cole was part of a far right organisation were not known — far right organisation were not known to— far right organisation were not known to services at the time. finally, — known to services at the time. finally, the last theme the panel identified was leadership and culture _ identified was leadership and culture. this case has highlighted a lack of— culture. this case has highlighted a lack of opportunities for professionals to reflect meetin-s, highly structured, and

supervision would have believe... supervision would have supported — believe... supervision would have supported case management. the believe... supervision would have sup highlighted management. the believe... supervision would have sup highlighted the nagement. the has highlighted the critical importance of discharge planning undertaken for importance of discharge planning where undertaken for been identified and the child have been identified and the child has attended hospital. despite the multi—agency safeguarding herb: ok, staff maintain their agency identity and culture and the panel found this created _ and culture and the panel found this created a _ and culture and the panel found this created a silo mentality. within the university— created a silo mentality. within the university health board concerned the panel— university health board concerned the panel believed to have seen evidence — the panel believed to have seen evidence of a culture in which staff are reluctant to challenge the clinical— are reluctant to challenge the clinical assessments and decisions made _ clinical assessments and decisions made by— clinical assessments and decisions made by more qualified professionals. the panel found that some _ professionals. the panel found that some staff — professionals. the panel found that some staff were not happy with the way logan's attendance at the accident — way logan's attendance at the accident and emergency unit in august— accident and emergency unit in august 2020 was managed that did not feel able _ august 2020 was managed that did not feel able to express their concerns,

either— feel able to express their concerns, either to— feel able to express their concerns, either to the clinician, or another partv _ either to the clinician, or another partv it— either to the clinician, or another party. it was clear to the panel that _ party. it was clear to the panel that agencies working with the family— that agencies working with the family in— that agencies working with the family in this case were doing so under— family in this case were doing so under severe multifaceted pressures during _ under severe multifaceted pressures during covid and they were examples of positive _ during covid and they were examples of positive practice identified and it is important that we build on these — it is important that we build on these. within the context of this review, — these. within the context of this review, there are recurring areas of learning _ review, there are recurring areas of learning that have already been identified in reviews throughout wales— identified in reviews throughout wales and england which has led this review— wales and england which has led this review to _ wales and england which has led this review to make both national and local— review to make both national and local recommendations. the local recommendations in summary are at the university health board should commission an independent review into its— commission an independent review into its practice and management of identifying and investigating nonaccidental injuries in children and adolescents. that the university health _ and adolescents. that the university health should ensure practitioners who work— health should ensure practitioners

who work directly with children and young _ who work directly with children and young people understand their role and -- _ young people understand their role and -- in _ young people understand their role and —— in identifying safeguarding concerns— and —— in identifying safeguarding concerns and their duty to report. that— concerns and their duty to report. that the _ concerns and their duty to report. that the safeguarding board should review _ that the safeguarding board should review and relaunch their multi—agency training, which has been _ multi—agency training, which has been in _ multi—agency training, which has been in existence but has been on hold for— been in existence but has been on hold for part of covid. that the safeguarding board to develop practitioners past —— guidance for those _ practitioners past —— guidance for those working with personality disorder~ — those working with personality disorder. at the local authority ensure — disorder. at the local authority ensure all— disorder. at the local authority ensure all its employees receive hi-h ensure all its employees receive high quality supervision and guidance and oversight of their practice — guidance and oversight of their practice. that the local authority improves — practice. that the local authority improves its approach to analysing and managing risk. that the local authority— and managing risk. that the local authority needs to ensure that all safeguarding staff are clear on the rights _ safeguarding staff are clear on the rights of _ safeguarding staff are clear on the rights of all persons with parental responsibility for a child to be informed _ responsibility for a child to be informed of a safeguarding concern. that the _ informed of a safeguarding concern.

that the safeguarding board should review _ that the safeguarding board should review their information sharing platforms — review their information sharing platforms with a particular focus on the multi—agency safeguarding information sharing platform. and at the safeguarding board should consider the recommendations of the covid-19 _ consider the recommendations of the covid—19 public inquiry and ensure it informs — covid—19 public inquiry and ensure it informs its future contingency planning — it informs its future contingency planning. the final local recommendation is that the safeguarding board should develop a regional— safeguarding board should develop a regional campaign to raise public awareness on how to report safeguarding concerns with an immediate focus on how to report and the public— immediate focus on how to report and the public awareness campaign targeting the signs of coercive and controlling behaviour. the five national— controlling behaviour. the five national recommendations partly build _ national recommendations partly build on — national recommendations partly build on these. the first of them are that — build on these. the first of them are that the whale safeguarding procedures project board to include specific— procedures project board to include specific guidance to child protection, that their duty to

inform — protection, that their duty to inform all parents with responsibility that the welsh government consider an all wales review— government consider an all wales review of— government consider an all wales review of child protection conferences. that the welsh government consider commissioning a campaign _ government consider commissioning a campaign to— government consider commissioning a campaign to raise public awareness on how— campaign to raise public awareness on how to _ campaign to raise public awareness on how to report the safeguarding campaigns. that the welsh government consider— campaigns. that the welsh government consider a _ campaigns. that the welsh government consider a full review of health, social— consider a full review of health, social care _ consider a full review of health, social care, education and police recording — social care, education and police recording information gathering and sharing _ recording information gathering and sharing systems. and a final recommendation for the family... a 12 week— recommendation for the family... a 12 week minimum period for any social— 12 week minimum period for any social work— 12 week minimum period for any social work assessments within the public— social work assessments within the public law— social work assessments within the public law proceedings arena as a standard — public law proceedings arena as a standard. thank you.— public law proceedings arena as a standard. thank you. thank you, they will now be a — standard. thank you. thank you, they will now be a number— standard. thank you. thank you, they will now be a number of— standard. thank you. thank you, they will now be a number of statements l will now be a number of statements from partner agencies. firstly the director of social services and

well—being, presenting a statement on behalf of bridgend county council. .,, on behalf of bridgend county council. ., ,, , , council. those are the key findings and recommendations _ council. those are the key findings and recommendations into - council. those are the key findings and recommendations into the - council. those are the key findings i and recommendations into the review of the murder of five—year—old logan mwangi. you may remember, he was... it was an utterly, utterly chilling and tragic case in which he was attacked in his own home, before his body was dumped in a nearby river. this was injuly 2021. his mother, his stepfather and a stepbrother were all later convicted of his murder. and sentenced earlier this year. that review finding evidence of systemic child safeguarding issues, in other words notjust one off individual failures in the case about problems with wider systems of child action in place, including a failure to report injuries that he suffered months before his death to

the agencies that could perhaps have stepped in to help. plenty more details in the report, a lot of them very distressing, to be honest with you. we will cross over to our correspondent who has been following this grace and was in the press conference watching it. we will get his analysis in a little while. do stay with us for that. tens of thousands of workers are on strike in a series of walk outs across the uk, affecting schools, universities and royal mail sorting offices. scotland is facing its first national strike by teachers for nearly a0 years after a revised pay offer was rejected by unions as "insulting". meanwhile, lecturers and other academic staff at universities are taking industrial action over pay, pensions and contracts. we'll have more on that in a moment. first, our correspondent alexandra mackenzie has the latest on the impact on primary and secondary state schools across scotland. what do we want? 10%!

they braved the cold at this picket line in cambuslang this morning. most primary and secondary schools across the country are closed. thousands of teachers from scotland's biggest teachers' union, the eis, are striking over pay. they should have had a pay rise in their bank accounts on the 1st of april — they have received nothing, zero. we are now towards the end of november, we've got a cost of living crisis and we've got a backdrop of teachers' pay having declined to the tune of 25% since 2008, so understandably they are very, very angry. the latest deal on the table would have seen lower paid teachers receive a rise of up to 6.85%, more than the previous 5% offer but well below the 10% increase the unions want. teachers say they're angry and frustrated at the latest pay offer, but the scottish government says 10% is just not affordable. we have a fixed budget and it is already fully utilised

for this year so to do anything that would increase the resolution we have on this would mean that money would have to come from elsewhere, so i'm very disappointed we're moving to strike action. it's disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don't want to see. for some parents it will be difficult to find additional childcare. this tennis camp is helping out. i would probably rather be in school but i do like playing tennis. i like writing in school- so we were going to be doing a bit of comic strips, _ and i'm quite sad i'm missing that. it's the first national teachers' strike in almost a0 years. all sides had hoped it could have been avoided. but without any agreement, further strikes are planned for the new year. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, cambuslang. as we've heard, university staff have walked out across the country on the first of three days of strikes about pay, working conditions and pensions.

our education correspondent, vanessa clarke, reports. anger and frustration on the picket line. pay issues, insecure contracts and changes to their pension schemes have led to staff at more than 150 universities walking out in protest today. for nathan howard, who is a postgrad researcher, he believes conditions will eventually force him out of a job he loves. the workload, the pressure, the lack of any kind of fixed time off. you officially sort of have to take the low pay — that's, you know, worse, and it's getting worse with the whole cost of living crisis and everything like that. many students are backing the strikes but are worried about even more disruption to their studies following the pandemic. for a lot of students i can say it is quite frustrating, especially if you are in the beginning years of your university. as a third year myself i am able to cope with that much more and professors have given us the option of sort of, like, out of office hours and giving us extra support when needed.

we turned up to university— is what we thought was a hub of sort of knowledge and empowerment, and then you learn that _ the industry's professionals aren't getting the treatment _ they deserve it. it's very saddening. universities say they are disappointed by today's action and that the pay demands are unrealistic. we are trying to do everything we can within the environments that we are operating with the funding that we've got to make sure that we are fair and transparent in the way in which we support our staff. my number one priority at the moment is to make sure that we don't disadvantaged students. frankly, they've had a really difficult time over the past few years with covid. this is the last thing that they need. the staff here and across the uk will be back again tomorrow for the second of three days of planned strike action, but if negotiations continue to end in deadlock there may be much more disruption for students in the coming months. vanessa clark, bbc news, sheffield.

thousands of postal workers have begun a 48 hour strike in a long running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions. royal mail said it had made its best and final offer to staff and accused unions of "holding christmas to ransom". unions say the offer on the table would "spell the end of royal mail as we know it". what we are hoping for and what mr harper has committed to is giving us an outcome for this meeting which will be a letter to me, saying how he sees this going forward and taking forward steps towards a

resolution and we laid out to him what we thought he should do and he has acknowledged some of that. the transort has acknowledged some of that. the transport secretary, mark harper, said talks were productive but that his job was not to do with the detailed negotiations was we agree that this was a productive meeting. it was the first one that we have had. i think it was the first one that we have had. ithink it it was the first one that we have had. i think it struck the right tone. i think there was a shared agreement in the meeting, we both want to have a thriving railway, thatis want to have a thriving railway, that is sustainable for the future, that is sustainable for the future, that serves passengers and serves the country and also provides a good well—paid job for the people he represents. there was a lot of shared agreement but we need to have the two sides, the trade unions and the two sides, the trade unions and the employers, sit down and agree on the employers, sit down and agree on the detail, so that we can bring this dispute to an end. i think that is where we both have a shared interest. , , ., ., interest. new figures show that net mi . ration interest. new figures show that net migration in — interest. new figures show that net migration in the _ interest. new figures show that net migration in the uk _ interest. new figures show that net migration in the uk hit _ interest. new figures show that net migration in the uk hit a _ interest. new figures show that net migration in the uk hit a record - migration in the uk hit a record level in the year tojune. the

difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number of people leaving was just over half a million. that is up from 173,000 the year before. you do need to understand what is going on. and within that number, students are actually very significant part of those who have arrived. 476,000 students came in that year tojune and that in part is a lot of students that did not come during the pandemic, may be delaying their study, so we are seeing a bulge of people coming to study. many people would argue they are extremely valuable to reducing the cost of further and higher education. ukrainians, as you say, we think that something... in the period we are looking at for net migration, one —— around 170,000, in total 200,000 have come, the vast majority of them have been fleeing the war in their country. and come

under a specific bespoke route that the government created, many of them. and so again, these are people who we have specifically invited and who we have specifically invited and who will always serve —— almost certainly return to their homeland when the situation settles down. police will be sending texts to about 70,000 people over the next 48—hour is to one then they have been victims of fraudsters trying to steal their money. the metropolitan police have arrested a man accused of running an international service enabling fake phone calls. some victims have lost thousands of pounds each. the met police say it is the biggest ever proactive operation to take down fraudsters. and there is a new strategy. taking down their tools. specifically a website thought to have been used by nearly 16,000

criminals worldwide. and alleged to have been run from this flat in east london. it has been closed by the fbi. it provided a server which criminals could use to call victims anonymously, pretending to be their bank. we anonymously, pretending to be their bank. ~ . . , anonymously, pretending to be their bank. . ., ., , ., anonymously, pretending to be their bank. ., ., , ., , bank. we are all used to these one-time _ bank. we are all used to these one-time passwords _ bank. we are all used to these one-time passwords that - bank. we are all used to these| one-time passwords that come bank. we are all used to these i one-time passwords that come to bank. we are all used to these - one-time passwords that come to your one—time passwords that come to your phone and you need to somehow constantly to give you that over the phone and to do that you need to impersonate being the bank, to impersonate being the bank, to impersonate the bank you need specialist software that allows your ordinary phone to pretend to be a bank phone and that is what was at the core of this.— the core of this. detectives got data from _ the core of this. detectives got data from the _ the core of this. detectives got data from the website - the core of this. detectives got data from the website server, | the core of this. detectives got - data from the website server, some victims had lost £10,000,. police believe the website allowed criminal to make up to 20 calls a minute. they have evidence of 200,000 possible victims in the uk. for some of those, they have a suspect and phone number of the victim of —— but

no name or address, so for the first time, they are sending 70,000 victims of fraud a mass text message. they will say to go to the action fraud website to register your details but of course, there is now a concern that scammers will send their own messages, posing as the police. the advice is that the only place victims will be asked for their information will be on this website. action fraud. a34—year—old man has been charged with fraud and organised offences but the investigation continues. police raids around the uk have resulted in 120 arrests. after breaking ice booth —— their message to the scammers as we know who you are. ofgem is increasing its price cap on gas and electricity from january, pushing up the amount the government has to pay to shield households from

the high cost of energy. without the government support, the average household will be paying about £4279 for its energy under the new cap but the government support will ensure that average households pay £2500 that average households pay £2500 thatis that average households pay £2500 that is based on average usage. the move will not change the amount households pay for their energy until at least april. the queen consort has been to a barnardos nursery in east london to deliver more than 1000 paddington bears. the soft toys were left outside royal residences by people after the death of the queen. they are now being donated to barnardos for their children are possibly services. the queen consort was joined by some of the children supported by the charity. time now for a look at the weather with darren. we are continuing to see a band of rain sweeping eastwards across the uk today. it

does not last very long but the wins are very gusty near that band of rain and stay quite windy even after the rain clears across the south coast of england and through the irish sea. these are the temperatures by the time we get to the early evening. there is that narrow band of rain with those really gusty scoring wins and some thunderstorms. taking a while to ease down overnight. more heavy showers running through across the northern half of the uk. calming down by the end of the night and temperatures may slip away to three degrees. the overnight showers by tomorrow our outing to the north sea. we will see further wet weather coming eastwards across northern part of scotland. it may be a dry day with some sunshine around and the wind is not as strong and gusty as today. temperature wise, around 10 degrees in the central belt of scotland, may be 14 in south wales.

hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by five year old logan mwangi — nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years. meanwhile — university staff across the uk are also walking out, and thousands of postal workers are staging a 48—hour strike more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune, the highest level on record. ambulances bosses warn of "cripling delays" as new figures reveal almost 30% of paramedics in england have been stuck waiting half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children.

the uk's biggest ever anti—fraud operation — 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. where else to start — than at the world cup in qatar — where all the sides in the tournament will have played their first matches by the end of the day uruguay and south korea are currrently playing. son heung min started for south korea — their captain wearing a protective face mask — after fracturing his socket playing for tottenham in the run up to qatar. perhaps the best chance so far, falling on the stroke of half time. uruguay defender diego godin's header back off the inside of the post.

it is currently goalless at the moment. about 15 minutes to go. this the opening game of group h. the first of today's four matches saw switzerland kick off their campaign off with a win. and a moment to rememberfor the man who got their winner. the swiss beat cameroon in group g and it was their cameroon—born striker breel embolo, who scored the only goal of the game, early in the second half. embolo decided not to celebrate — raising both hands while appearing to apologise. embolo was born in yaounde, but received swiss citizenship in 2014 after spending his youth career in the country. the next match sees cristiano ronaldo and portugal enter the tournament against ghana. ronaldo is now without a club side — after he and manchester united agreed to terminate his contract this week. that followed his controversial interview where he spoke of not respecting manager erik ten hag. he didn't talk much publicly yesterday — as he dropped out of the traditional

captain's press conference. brazil are favourites to win the whole tournament for a sixth time. they finish off the day in the evening kick off as they look to match switzerland in their group with a victory. big things are expected after a disappointing quarter—final exit in russia four years ago. they play serbia this evening — live on bbc one at seven o'clock. serbia's manager dragan stojkovic says his side won't show any fear. the game will start 0—0 so brazil has a chance to win but serbia also has a chance to win but serbia also has a chance to win but serbia also has a chance to win. we are not afraid of anyone in the world. excuse me, but even brazil. we do not need to be afraid of anyone. wales have trained today ahead of their game against iran tomorrow. midfielderjoe allen is fit again after missing their draw with the us on monday. a win against iran would put them in a very strong position going into theirfinal game against england next week.

england manager gareth southgate says the extra stoppage time being played, has taken his side by surprise. they played nearly half an hour more against iran over the two halves and other games have had longer periods too. a bit bizarre. clearly there have been some unique incidents, the incident with the iranian goalkeeper was a serious one. because it is a goalkeeper, you cannot restart the game with him off the field, so that definitely delayed things. there were the var checks, but across every game there does seem to have been a lot. it does have a consequence. we almost played an extra time, really. that will be interesting to track as the tournament goes on. the england squad trained earlier today. captain harry kane should be fit to face the usa tomorrow. he went off injured in monday's 6—2 victory against iran but a scan on his ankle showed no significant issues. james maddison is the only player still struggling for fitness, for a game, if england win, would almost guarantee

their progression. that's all the sport for now. it is still gold is in the game between south korea and uruguay. —— it is still goalless. between south korea and uruguay. -- it is still goalless.— it is still goalless. thanks for “oininr it is still goalless. thanks for joining us- — 15 months after the taliban took control of afghanistan, the united nations has described the humanitarian situation there as a catastrophe. the country's economy has collapsed, the healthcare system is crumbling and 6 million people are on the brink of starvation. the bbc has found evidence that some families are being forced to take extreme steps — including selling their daughters into early marriage to pay forfood and medicine. our afghanistan correspondent yogita limaye reports from the city of herat. just outside herat live tens of thousands displaced by years of war and natural disasters. a second winter since the economy collapsed. in each home, a story

of acute hunger. they came to us wanting to be heard. we were shocked by what they said. "our children cry because they're going to bed hungry, so we give them tablets to put them to sleep. they'd be better off dead," abdul rahab said. does anyone else also do the same thing? "a lot of us, all of us," they said. ghulam hazrat was carrying the tablets with him. they were tranquilisers. others later also showed us antidepressants they give their children. in the market you can get five tablets for the price of one piece of bread. ghulam said he gives it to his one—year—old.

these men, their dignity, broken by hunger. translation: i sold my five-year-old daughter for 1200 dollars _ and sent my teenage son to iran illegally to work. my younger sons collect rubbish every day. "we have nothing. where should we take our children and go?" they asked. four—year—old nazia lives next door. she has been sold to be married to a boy from the southern province of kandahar. child cries her father announced at the local mosque that he wanted to sell her because he couldn't afford to feed his family. at 14, nazia will be sent away. translation: | used most - of the money to buy food and some for medicine for my son. look at him — he's malnourished and needs treatment. i'd never think of selling my daughter if there

was any other option. we didn't have to look hard to find these stories. they were behind every door we walked into. from what we've seen and heard we know that there is a disaster unfolding on the ground here. hunger is a slow and silent killer and often its effects aren't immediately visible. but the truth is we will never know the scale of what is happening here because no one is counting. people here feel abandoned, by everyone — by the government that is currently running this country and by the whole world. this is an emergency. more than half the country needs life—saving support. millions are a step away from famine. yogita limaye, bbc news, herat. nearly three in 10 ambulance crews have had to wait half an hour — or more — to hand over patients at accident and emergency

departments in england, in the past week. the transfer time is meant to be within 15 minutes of arrival. according to the new figures — at around a tenth of hospitals — more than half of ambulance crews which arrived during the week were delayed. families struggling to keep up with the cost of living are being warned of the dangers of loan sharks. one charity says this year is the first time it's seen people turn to illegal lenders to pay for essentials like food and fuel. our "cost of living" correspondent, colletta smith, has been speaking to someone who fell victim to this, we've changed her voice to protect her identity. kelly needed a bit of extra help to afford the household extras, borrowing £100 from her neighbour's sister who she thought wasjust being kind. but she wasn't. and she asked for how much back? 325 back. each time. because it left me a bit short, i'd borrow again and ijust kept

borrowing and borrowing and borrowing just to keep myself afloat. how did it feel that so much money was being taken away from you each week, each month that you were having to pay back? it was horrible. ijust felt like i was suffocating. and i was like, there is no way out. kelly ended up giving £900 of her £1050 wages straight to the loan shark each month. and was threatened if she didn't pay. what was she saying would happen? that people aren't to be messed with and they are really bad people. and we would all be goners. it's not illegal to lend money to a friend, but lending to lots of different people without paperwork, charging high interest rates and even using threats to get that money back is illegal. the concern this year is because more people are struggling and wonga and quick quid no longer exist, more people might turn to illegal lenders to make ends meet. this year, for the first time, we are seeing people who have

borrowed from a loan shark for food and fuel, so we've always had everyday living expenses, but historically, it has been white goods or tyres or school uniform, whereas now, over half the people we supported in the first half of the year borrowed for everyday living expenses, food and fuel. eventually, kelly did seek help and made the call to stop the loan sharks. if i was to give any advice to anyone, i would tell them to seek help now. it's never too late to get help. the government has stopped its funding for rochdale boroughwide housing — following the death of two—year—old awaab ishak — due to mould in his family's flat. the housing secretary, michael gove, has visited rochdale awaab's family. eleanor moritz reports. it's two years since awaab ishak

died, but it is only now, in spite of his parents's plea for help while he was alive that the state of social housing has come into the spotlight. the housing secretary, michael gove, who is in rochdale today, says tens of thousands of homes across the country, if not more, are not safe to inhabit. awaab's parents went through hell. they lost their two—year—old son as a result of the terrible conditions in which they were living. the organisation responsible, rochdale boroughwide housing, has to make sure that a situation like this never occurs again. rochdale boroughwide housing had been due to receive £1 million from the government to build new homes. that's now been blocked. its long—standing chief executive gareth swarbrick was sacked last week. but it was these pictures, filmed in otherflats in rochdale by bbc north west tonight last week, which underlined the lack of improvement since awaab's death. we are saying to them, you won't get the the money that you have asked for to expand until you first of all make sure that your residents, your tenants are living in proper, decent homes.

make sure that you are doing your basicjob appropriately and correctly. the government says it's given a share of £14 million to seven areas, including greater manchester, liverpool and barrow, with high numbers of poor, privately rented homes, to crack down on landlords. labour says awaab's death is a stain on the conscience of modern britain. eleanor moritz, bbc north west today. there's growing evidence that the french coastguard failed to respond adequately to the migrant boat that sank in the channel a year ago today. 27 people died when the boat sank, and several others are still missing. only two passengers survived. documents seen by the bbc suggest that french operators repeatedly told passengers to call the uk, despite evidence they were sometimes in french waters. uk investigators have said that british "surface and air assets" were sent to search for the boat but found nothing.

lucy williamson has this report from northern france. tragedy has changed little on the channel. one year on, the flow of migrants has only increased. the deaths of at least 27 people didn't even change the cost of a passage, the risk of disaster already priced in. tuana was 18 years old when he called coastguards from the sinking boat a year ago, a young footballer from iraqi kurdistan. his body has never been found. his brother, here in france to help the investigation, said his advice was always, if you are in trouble, call the police. translation: the two survivors confirmed they were constantly l in touch with french and british authorities, continuously sent them the location. after reading the legal report, i found that their phone calls were dismissed and answered with mockery. these people were not viewed as human beings. the french coastguard first received the distress call from the boat at 1:48am.

at that point, it seemed to be half a mile inside french waters. documents seen by the bbc suggest operators did not call in rescuers as promised and, instead, contacted the uk. they repeatedly told desperate and screaming passengers to call the british coastguard. "you are in english waters," one says. "wait, i'll transfer you to the uk." another tells french emergency services they've been calling nonstop. "we know they are more or less in the english zone." boats in trouble can drift between french and british waters, complicating the rescue response. i believe that vesselj is now in uk waters. and there are warnings that resources are increasingly stretched as small boat crossings rise. france's sea minister told parliament that any negligence found

by the investigation would lead to sanctions. there are people here who said this was a disaster waiting to happen, and it is not the only time desperate passengers have been passed back and forth between rescue teams in britain and france. we have heard evidence that another migrant boat calling for help from the channel experienced the same response just a few days before. these messages were received by a migrant helpline in dunkirk four days before the channel disaster. raphael cousin who took the call says a french lifeboat came to rescue them. when someone is in distress, theyjust need to be saved as soon as possible. so there is no time to talk about who is going to save them and in which boat are they going

to be returned? one year on from the channel disaster, investigators have yet to report their findings as each month, thousands more steer their way between trust and tragedy, aiming for british shores. lucy williamson, bbc news, calais. daily covid infections in china have hit a record high since the start of the pandemic nearly three years ago. that's despite crippling restrictions on life, including snap lockdowns. tightened measures have been announced for zhengzhou — where workers at the world's largest iphone factory have been clashing with security forces over covid—related conditions and pay. stephen mcdonell in beijing has more. so, like, for example, i am at home, my community is under a form of lockdown so everyone can be tested, and that is because one

person in this complex was somehow linked to a case. now, it may be that this only lasts for a day or so, or it could go on. of course, if the testing of everyone picks up more people, we could all be here for a week. all across, especially in beijing, there are thousands of towers where people are confined to their homes. and in many cases, that is for a minimum of three days at the moment as the city government tries to deal with the outbreak here. now, that of course is going on all across china — north, south, east, west. you have various levels of lockdown in many, many cities. of course, this is really hitting the economy here, and it is despite the fact that there have been, you know, very serious measures put in place to try to prevent the spread of the disease. now, the thing is, though, that recently the authorities introduced a series of measures to try to take the heat off the economy.

they know that zero covid is smashing the economy. but the problem is they have kind of created the worst of both worlds in a way because now businesses are still being hit, and yet bite sort of easing off some of those measures, they are not quite as effective at crashing every outbreak as it happens. the feeling is that this might drag the whole crisis on for even longer, and we have no indication yet from the government of what the actual off ramp is and that is at a time when china has reported its highest ever daily number of cases right across the country. now, if you're the parent of a teenager, there's a good chance you worry your child spends too much time playing video games. but studies have found that, in moderation, gaming can have benefits for well—being. the advisory body — the national institute for health and care excellence — recently approved a series of digital games to help young people with their mental health.

alex humphreys reports. across the uk, more than 44 million people play video games. that is more than half the uk's population. wow! children in need have been funding projects across the uk that use gaming to support young people, and i have been to meet some of them. hi, my name is seth, i am 13 years old, and i have duchenne muscular dystrophy. what helps me is my chair and one of the most important things — video games. seth is helped by the charity ty hafan, based on the outskirts of cardiff. they also encouraged him to become a member of the senedd's youth parliament, where he advocates for more disability awareness. importantly for seth, ty hafan also has a gaming room. if you are in a wheelchair, you can't always run around with everyone, so when i play minecraft, i can run around and jump

in all sorts of games, and it is really fun. i'm martha, i'm 15, i'm from south wales, and i volunteer for valleys kids. valleys kids provides activities and opportunities for children and young people in rhondda cynon taff, including through gaming. one of their projects was to recreate the fernhill colliery in minecraft. if you finish a sheet of, like, maths or work, it is boring. but if you were doing a game where to get out of the maze, you had to do maths problems, that is way more fun and also you're going to remember it more. through gaming and working with valleys kids, i have gone from that little kid in primary who wouldn't speak to anyone, i wouldn't look up from the table, to being in the school show and joining the debate team and volunteering. hello, i'm 20 years old now, which is mad, i am disabled, gay, i have been bullied a lot in my childhood and stuff.

bbc children in need fund the community action group that helps him. he has had opportunities to game, act and present through their film—based project wicked wales. i always came to gaming because it was a safe space for me, personally. but it also meant that i could escape reality and just be in my own world and in my little fantasy dream sort of thing. while many charities and experts see clear benefits to gaming, it is not a solution for everyone and some do find playing video games are addictive. time playing video games does have to be balanced. so, if for example you find yourself feeling irritable, tired, angry, frustrated, take a step back. that balance is really, really important. but for seth, he will continue to be a big advocate of gaming. video games are just really important to me because on some things i can't alwaysjoin in, but in video games i can always

join in with everyone. well, gaming clearly can be a force for good for many people. now, how do i get out of this level? a roman emperor in the 3rd century, who was written out of history as a fictional character, really did exist — according to new research. specialists have looked again at an ancient gold coin which bears the name and portrait of emperor sponsian but was believed to have been a fake — until now. our science correspondent pallab ghosh has been to the hunterian museum in glasgow, where the coin is on display. a roman coin that has baffled historians, thought to have been a fake for hundreds of years. a close look shows pit marks. these, and its crude design, led to the experts thinking it was made by forgers in the 18th century. oh, that's really nice around there. can we get a higher resolution image of that?

but scientist paul pearson thought they were wrong. so he began a forensic investigation. silicon, oxygen, iron. under a high—power microscope, he found scratches, which could only have been produced by rubbing together with other coins in purses. and a chemical analysis showed that it had been buried under the soil for hundreds of years. all clues that indicate that it was genuine. yeah, look at that. i think what we found is an emperor, an important historical figure in his own time, thought to have been a fake, been written off by all the experts and the historians. we've found that he was real and that he had a role in history. the coin is one ofjust four at glasgow university's hunterian museum. these three are of known roman emperors, but this one has been a real mystery. it has a picture of someone that the experts thought

never existed at all. the coins were originally discovered in 1713 in transylvania. it was a small hoard of roman gold, and it was transported to the imperial coin collection in vienna. the detective story to discover who the mystery man was continued with jesper ericksson. well, they came here by quite an extraordinary route, really. they've been laying in wooden cabinets, nearforgotten for almost 200 years. his research suggested that the face on the coin belonged to a real—life military leader, called sponsian, who ruled a province of the empire that is now transylvania, where only ruins remain of the roman occupation. the reason our research on these coins is so important is that we feel we've now proved that they are real coins and can therefore say that sponsian could be a real person and that he is legitimately, therefore, a lost roman emperor.

the researchers now want to find more evidence of sponsian to see what more can be learnt about the lost roman emperor. palab ghosh, bbc news, glasgow. a new record has been set by a pet in south—east london as the world's oldest living cat. flossie who is 26—years—old was confirmed as the oldest cat by guinness world records, which said she had a human equivalent age of 120 years old. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. tomorrow should be a dry day for many parts of the country and not as windy either. today, though, we are still very unsettled. we have got this low pressure pushing in from the atlantic, bringing in a weather front as well. a lot of cloud coming in ahead of that, that is sweeping its way eastwards. the rain on the weather front may not last very long,

but it is going to be very heavy. squally, really gusty winds with that rain, and maybe some thunderstorms as well as it continues to push its way eastwards, followed by some showers coming into these western areas. and these are the temperatures as we head into the early evening. beginning to dip away to around 9 degrees or so. we have still got some gusty winds, even outside of that squally band of rain. some strong and gusty winds through the english channel and through the irish sea, as well. it stays quite windy well into the night, in actual fact. we will see another batch of heavy, perhaps even thundery showers pushing in across western areas, then heading its way across northern parts of the uk. things begin to calm down a bit by the end of the night, and we should just escape a frost, temperatures in rural areas could dip away to around three degrees or so. heading into tomorrow, we see the back of those overnight showers into the north sea, but more showers, perhaps longer spells of rain will come into mainly northern parts of scotland. the odd shower across some western areas, but many parts will be dry and there will be some decent sunshine. the winds not as strong, not as gusty as today.

and those temperatures similar to what we have seen today, so 12—13 perhaps across more southern parts of england and wales and 9—10 in scotland. now, heading into the weekend, we see more weather fronts approaching from the atlantic. slowly but surely the winds picking up, as well. but we may well start with some early sunshine on saturday across eastern england before it even clouds over here. then we will see this rain developing a bit more widely across scotland, across western parts of england and wales, and affecting northern ireland at times. all the while, this south to south—westerly wind will be picking up, may well be touching gale force around some southern and western coastal areas, as well, but bringing in with it mild air, temperatures could make 11—12 even in scotland. and it will be very mild, actually, on saturday night. that rain pushing its way eastwards. moving away from south—eastern areas, we are left with more cloud here. still could be some rain on and off through the day. away from the south—east, more sunshine, some heavy showers, perhaps thundery showers coming into these more exposed western areas. the winds will not be quite as strong and those temperatures are back down to around 11—12 quite widely.

this is bbc news. the headlines... a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injury sustained by a five—year—old logan mwangi nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his own family. this review, and angst other findings, identify service failures where agencies could and should have acted differently. for these failures, we take full responsibility and apologise. abs, failures, we take full resonsibili and aoloaise. �* ., responsibility and apologise. a wave of industrial action _ responsibility and apologise. a wave of industrial action continues - responsibility and apologise. a wave of industrial action continues to - of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland, teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years. for the first time in almost 40 ears. ~ . . for the first time in almost 40 ears. ~ ., ., ., years. we have a cost of living crisis and _ years. we have a cost of living crisis and a — years. we have a cost of living crisis and a backdrop - years. we have a cost of living crisis and a backdrop of - years. we have a cost of living crisis and a backdrop of pay i years. we have a cost of living i crisis and a backdrop of pay having

declined to the tune of 25% since 2008. understandably, they are very angry. meanwhile university staff across the uk are also walking out at —— and thousands of postal workers are staging a 48—hour strike. more than half a million more people enter the uk than left in the year tojune, that is the highest level on record. ambulance bosses warn of crippling delays, as new figures reveal almost 30% of paramedics in england have been stuck waiting half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban —controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children. the uk because of yes biggest ever antifraud operation. 70,000 possible victims of scam calls are being contacted by the police.

good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a review published earlier this afternoon has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by a young boy nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. five—year—old logan mwangi was killed by his mother, stepfather and a teenage boy at his home near bridgend injuly last year. error of the safeguarding review said if further information had been shared, it would have likely triggered a child protection assessment.— triggered a child protection assessment. ., ., , ., assessment. logan was first taken to hos - ital in assessment. logan was first taken to hospital in mid-august _ assessment. logan was first taken to hospital in mid-august 2020, - hospital in mid—august 2020, following him allegedly falling down the stairs. hospital staff notified children's services emergency duty team, they had concerns in respect

of the delayed presentation. upon further examination, other injuries were noted. the explanation provided by his mother, angharad williamson, was apparently accepted. the further injuries observed were not shared or referred to children's services. this was a significant missed opportunity for logan. had further information been shared, it most likely, though we cannot say for sure because of hindsight bias, would have triggered a child protection assessment, in line with the joint agreed protection assessment, in line with thejoint agreed guidelines, as protection assessment, in line with the joint agreed guidelines, as the nature of those injuries clearly met the threshold. our reporter, mark hutchings, is in bridgend. i know you were watching that press conference as well. the details, distressing, heartbreaking, and i suppose the question around all of this is did the review will find these were one—off incidents or

bigger problems for the system? thea;r bigger problems for the system? they do hiuuhliht bigger problems for the system? tue: do highlight bigger problems bigger problems for the system? tu91 do highlight bigger problems with the system. you heard one failing and there are others. we should fundamentally acknowledge that they were three people to blame for logan mwangi's treatment in life and his horrific death and they were his family. his mother, angharad williamson, stepfatherjohn cole and 14—year—old craig mulligan, who lived with them as part of the family unit. it was injuly last year that logan sustained 56 separate injuries and a fatal attack. his body was then dumped as if it were rubbish along the banks of the river and then there was what the stepfatherjohn cole admitted was a pantomime, they pretended they did not know where he was and shed crocodile tears and alerted the authorities for the search when they knew all along that logan is was dead and where they had left it.

that is where the blame lies and these women go those three are serving heftyjail sentences but it did prompt serious questions and what the involvement of the authorities were in the months leading up to the death. you heard about the injuries that were found apart from a broken arm in hospital and other things highlighted by this review, including that at the time they were covid restrictions in place and the panel found that the family deliberately used covid restrictions to avoid not interaction but detection and it meant there were no at one—to—one meetings with logan outside the family home. they also point out to the culture at the time within various agencies and within the health authority in particular and say that there were junior staff who are afraid to speak out to challenge the views of senior clinicians and also they highlight problems with

sharing information between different agencies and that is something we hear about regularly in such reviews as they say the information was inconsistent. this was a family that was known to be complex and volatile. and was a family that was known to be complex and volatile.— complex and volatile. and the findinas, complex and volatile. and the findings. i _ complex and volatile. and the findings, ithink— complex and volatile. and the findings, i think you _ complex and volatile. and the findings, i think you touched i complex and volatile. and the i findings, i think you touched on some of the suggestions, but in terms of avoiding anything like this happening again, were there steps that they recommended could now be taken? the that they recommended could now be taken? , :, :, :, taken? the standout call from the anel is taken? the standout call from the panel is for— taken? the standout call from the panel is for the _ taken? the standout call from the panel is for the welsh _ taken? the standout call from the| panel is for the welsh government taken? the standout call from the i panel is for the welsh government to have a review of how the various agencies share information, as i pointed out there, they found it to be inconsistent that they are calling on the welsh government to look at a review of the whole system for so comment from the welsh government on that. we have heard from the children's commissioner for wales who said she thinks it should go further than that and there needs to be greater accountability of all the

difference safeguarding boards because we do have these reports not just in wales sadly but around the rest of the uk that often highlight a problem with sharing information, those boards can act separately, so how are they all held accountable? many thanks indeed for the update. tens of thousands of workers are on strike in a series of walk outs across the uk, affecting schools, universities and royal mail sorting offices. scotland is facing its first national strike by teachers for nearly 40 yearsm after a revised pay offer was rejected for nearly 40 years, after a revised pay offer was rejected by unions as "insulting". meanwhile, lecturers and other academic staff at universities are taking industrial action over pay, pensions and contracts. we'll have more on that in a moment. first, our correspondent, alexandra mackenzie, has the latest on the impact on primary and secondary state schools across scotland. what do we want? 10%! they braved the cold at this picket line in cambuslang this morning. most primary and secondary schools across the country are closed. thousands of teachers

from scotland's biggest teachers' union, the eis, are striking over pay. they should have had a pay rise in their bank accounts on the 1st of april — they have received nothing, zero. we are now towards the end of november, we've got a cost of living crisis and we've got a backdrop of teachers' pay having declined to the tune of 25% since 2008, so understandably they are very, very angry. the latest deal on the table would have seen lower paid teachers receive a rise of up to 6.85%, more than the previous 5% offer but well below the 10% increase the unions want. teachers say they're angry and frustrated at the latest pay offer, but the scottish government says 10% is just not affordable. we have a fixed budget and it is already fully utilised for this year so to do anything that would increase the resolution we have on this would mean that money would have to come

from elsewhere, so i'm very disappointed we're moving to strike action. it's disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don't want to see. for some parents it will be difficult to find additional childcare. this tennis camp is helping out. i would probably rather be in school but i do like playing tennis. i like writing in school- so we were going to be doing a bit of comic strips, _ and i'm quite sad i'm missing that. it's the first national teachers' strike in almost 40 years. all sides had hoped it could have been avoided. but without any agreement, further strikes are planned for the new year. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, cambuslang. as we've heard, university staff have walked out across the country on the first of three days of strikes about pay, working conditions and pensions. our education correspondent, vanessa clarke, reports.

anger and frustration on the picket line. pay issues, insecure contracts and changes to their pension schemes have led to staff at more than 150 universities walking out in protest today. for nathan howard, who is a postgrad researcher, he believes conditions will eventually force him out of a job he loves. the workload, the pressure, the lack of any kind of fixed time off. you officially sort of have to take the low pay — that's, you know, worse, and it's getting worse with the whole cost of living crisis and everything like that. many students are backing the strikes but are worried about even more disruption to their studies following the pandemic. for a lot of students i can say it is quite frustrating, especially if you are in the beginning years of your university. as a third year myself i am able to cope with that much more and professors have given us the option of sort of, like, out of office hours and giving us extra support when needed. we turned up to university— as what we thought was a hub of sort

of knowledge and empowerment, and then you learn that _ the industry's professionals aren't getting the treatment _ they deserve it. it's very saddening. universities say they are disappointed by today's action and that the pay demands are unrealistic. we are trying to do everything we can within the environments that we are operating with the funding that we've got to make sure that we are fair and transparent in the way in which we support our staff. my number one priority at the moment is to make sure that we don't disadvantaged students. frankly, they've had a really difficult time over the past few years with covid. this is the last thing that they need. the staff here and across the uk will be back again tomorrow for the second of three days of planned strike action, but if negotiations continue to end in deadlock there may be much more disruption for students in the coming months. vanessa clark, bbc news, sheffield. thousands of postal workers have begun a 48 hour strike in a long

running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions. royal mail said it had made its best and final offer to staff and accused unions of "holding christmas to ransom". unions say the offer on the table would "spell the end of royal mail as we know it". the head of the rmt union, mick lynch has met with the transport secretary mark harper. mr lynch says the meeting was "positive". earlier this week the rmt union announced rail strikes around christmas. mr lynch said mr harper had agreed to write to him about how he sees the union's lengthy dispute with rail operators "going forward". what we are hoping for and what mr harper has committed to is giving us an outcome for this meeting which will be a letter to me, saying how he sees this going forward and taking forward steps towards a resolution and we laid out to him what we thought he should do and he has acknowledged some of that. transport secretary mark harper said talks were "productive", but that his job wasn't to do

the detailed negotiations. he and i agree that this was a productive meeting. it was the first one that we have had. i think it struck the right tone. i think there was a shared agreement in the meeting, we both want to have a thriving railway, that is sustainable for the future, that serves passengers and serves the country and also provides good well—paid jobs for the people he represents. there was a lot of shared agreement but we need to have the two sides, the trade unions and the employers, sit down and agree on the detail, so that we can bring this dispute to an end. i think that is where we both have a shared interest. joining me now is dr angela baron, who is a industrial relations expert from the university of sussex. good to have you with us. why do you think we are seeing the strikes all taking place now, seemingly at the

same time? i taking place now, seemingly at the same time?— same time? i think it is another --ent-u same time? i think it is another pent-up frustration. _ same time? i think it is another pent-up frustration. there i same time? i think it is another pent-up frustration. there are i same time? i think it is another| pent-up frustration. there are a pent—up frustration. there are a number of things that have happened which brought this to a head. in the public sector and most of the strikes we are talking about are any public sector, we have seen an ocean of real wages over the last few years and that means that people are not able to buy as much as they were a few years ago. we had all of those years of austerity, where wages did not rise as much as they could have done. and now of course, we are seeing inflation at 10%, we are seeing inflation at 10%, we are seeing a cost of living crisis, and we know that people are struggling. and a lot of the people that are striking are in fairly low played when group a jobs but there are also professional people, you did not mention the nurses, the nurses are threatening to strike. and those people are in professionaljobs,

they are providing an essential service to society and they are struggling to feed their families. and heat their homes. and that is the difficult situation we find ourselves in. nobody wants a strike, no worker wants to go on strike, and employers certainly don't want strikes, but of course for many of these people, they feel it is the last resort. they have not been listened to and they feel that they are being neglected. they understand that we are not living in unequal society, that we have seen rich people getting richer and richer and seem to get all the tax breaks and it appears that ordinary working people are having to shoulder the responsibility for the country's economic ills.— responsibility for the country's economic ills. :, :, :, economic ills. part of the argument auainst economic ills. part of the argument against awarding _ economic ills. part of the argument against awarding the _ economic ills. part of the argument against awarding the pay _ economic ills. part of the argument against awarding the pay rises i economic ills. part of the argument against awarding the pay rises that | against awarding the pay rises that are being sought, it then bakes in higher prices will if wage bills got, eventually those passes ——

prices get passed on to us as customers, including the people who are in those organisations. i am customers, including the people who are in those organisations.— are in those organisations. i am not an economist. _ are in those organisations. i am not an economist, but _ are in those organisations. i am not an economist, but we _ are in those organisations. i am not an economist, but we have... i are in those organisations. i am not an economist, but we have... we . are in those organisations. i am not i an economist, but we have... we need to understand, are we talking about wages chasing prices here? all prices chasing wages? and personally i think the are talking about the former. prices have gone up. people are looking now to earn enough money to be able to afford those prices. rather than the other way around. there are two sides to that argument. there are two sides to that argument-— there are two sides to that argument. there are two sides to that an ument. ' : :, , ,, , argument. the effect of the strikes thou:h is argument. the effect of the strikes though is also _ argument. the effect of the strikes though is also on _ argument. the effect of the strikes though is also on people _ argument. the effect of the strikes though is also on people who i argument. the effect of the strikes though is also on people who are l though is also on people who are facing exactly the same pressures, but people are trying to get away, getting to hospitals, get to schools, and if it is trying strikes we are talking about for example, that has more of an inconvenience for them that it necessarily does

against the train operators or the government. i against the train operators or the government-— government. i absolutely agree. yeah, government. i absolutely agree. yeah. again. _ government. i absolutely agree. yeah. again. it— government. i absolutely agree. yeah, again, it is— government. i absolutely agree. yeah, again, it is ordinary i government. i absolutely agree. | yeah, again, it is ordinary people that are suffering the most disruption. the train companies, you have to look at the funding forming and how it works. in many ways, strikes don't cost them as much as you might think. but then there is no point striking —— striking is the only weapon that workers have to make their case and there is no point in going on strike if nobody is going to notice. you have to balance the need to make your case and to get your case heard, as a representative of the workforce, with not wanting to cause any more pain than is absolutely necessary. certainly any transport sector but of course my sector, education, no

lecturer wants to go on strike and disadvantage their students, they really don't. it is a very painful decision for most of us had before i asked, when i have not made yet. but it is very difficult. and certainly, as the gentleman in your clip earlier said, some people feel that they are being forced out of a profession that they love and that is not the same in education, that is not the same in education, that is the same in health as well, they simply cannot vote to work any more. it is a release situation. we simply cannot vote to work any more. it is a release situation.— it is a release situation. we will have to leave _ it is a release situation. we will have to leave it _ it is a release situation. we will have to leave it there. - it is a release situation. we will have to leave it there. thank i it is a release situation. we will. have to leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us. net migration to the uk has climbed to a record half a million, driven by a series of world events including the war in ukraine and the end of lockdown restrictions. new figures from the office for national statistics suggestjust over half a million more people are estimated to have moved to the uk than left, in the 12 months tojune 2022 — a sharp rise on the previous year. our home editor, mark easton,

gave us more details. you do need to understand what is going on though and within that number, students are actually a very significant part of those who have arrived. 476,000 students came in that year tojune and that in part is because a lot of students did not come during the pandemic, may be delayed the study, so we are seeing a bit of a bulge of the number of people coming to study in the uk and many people would argue they are extremely valuable to reducing the cost of further and higher education in britain. as you say, ukrainians, we think that something... in the period we are looking for net migration, around 170,000 ukrainians, in total200,000 ukrainians, in total 200,000 ukrainians, in total200,000 ukrainians have come, the vast majority of them have been free in the war in their country. and has come under a specific bespoke route that the government created, many of them. and so again, these are people

who specifically were invited and will almost certainly return to their homeland when the situation settles down. nearly a third of ambulances arriving at hospitals in england are having to wait more than 30 minutes for their patients to be handed over to doctors and nurses. a transfer should be carried out within 15 minutes. these figures come from official data released today by nhs england, our health reporter, jim reed, has been looking into the details. this sounds like a worrying scenario. is it isolated examples, is it typical?— is it typical? what is happening here is the _ is it typical? what is happening here is the nhs _ is it typical? what is happening here is the nhs is _ is it typical? what is happening here is the nhs is publishing i is it typical? what is happening i here is the nhs is publishing what is called winter situation data. it does this every winter. this is the first batch we have seen this year. it is interesting because it gives some indication of the pressures the health services feeling at the most difficult time of year for doctors and nurses and looking at the figures today, they are pretty worrying for health professionals. if we look at ambulances, they are interesting, one reason is the delays can obviously have direct

patient harm but it is a canary in the coal mine kind of situation where if you look at what is happening with ambiences, they will tell you what kind of pressure the rest of the health services under. 29% of ambulances that turn up at hospital then have to wait at least half—an—hour to unload their patients. the target for the nhs is under 15 minutes. 13% of those ambulances, more than one in ten, are having to wait more than an hour. one problem with that is if you have a sick person in the ambulance rather than any hospital, they might not be getting the treatment they need and then if you have big queues of ambiences having to wait outside hospitals, they are not able to quickly get out of the next person who needs help. this is a real concern for the health service going into the winter period. these figures have become substantially worse than a seat —— similar period last year. hagar substantially worse than a seat -- similar period last year. how much of a breakdown _ similar period last year. how much of a breakdown we _ similar period last year. how much of a breakdown we get? _ similar period last year. how much of a breakdown we get? do -

similar period last year. how much of a breakdown we get? do they i similar period last year. how much i of a breakdown we get? do they look at it area by area, hospital by hospital, or is this an overview? ii hospital, or is this an overview? if you look at what is happening across england, these are england figures, but wales, scotland, northern ireland are facing some of the same pressures. in scotland, the delays are not quite as bad but this is very much a uk issue. if we look across england there is a problem in the south—west, we have had this for a while over the summer, in the midlands, the east midlands and in the east of the country. 29% of ambulances, so almost one in three, are having to wait 30 minutes when they arrive at hospital to get patients off. if you look at the norwich and norfolk hospital, in the east of the country, that figure goes up from 29% to 73%. these are big figures. it is important to say, as i alluded to at the beginning, we are currently in november, so the beginning of that tough winter period, these pressures start to peak around january, february time, when you have things like flu, at

the moment covid rates are quite low but that could come back, you have people falling on tripping over, viruses tending to go round. this is a kind of indication, a hint of some of the pressures that could be stored up over the next couple of months. :, ~ stored up over the next couple of months. :, ,, , :, :, :, ,, stored up over the next couple of months. :, ,, :, :, ,, , , months. thank you for making sense of it for us- — fifteen months after the taliban took control of afghanistan, the united nations has described the humanitarian situation there as a catastrophe. the country's economy has collapsed, the healthcare system is crumbling and 6 million people are on the brink of starvation. the bbc has found evidence that some families are being forced to take extreme steps — including selling their daughters into early marriage to pay forfood and medicine. our afghanistan correspondent yogita limaye reports from the city of herat. just outside herat live tens of thousands displaced by years of war and natural disasters. a second winter since the economy collapsed. in each home, a story

of acute hunger. they came to us wanting to be heard. we were shocked by what they said. "our children cry because they're going to bed hungry so we give them tablets to put them to sleep. they'd be better off dead," abdul rahab said. does anyone else also do the same thing? "a lot of us, all of us," they said. ghulam hazrat was carrying the tablets with him. they were tranquilisers. others later also showed us antidepressants they give their children. in the market you can get five tablets for the price of one piece of bread. ghulam said he gives it to his one—year—old. these men, their dignity broken by hunger.

translation: i sold my five-year-old daughter for 1200 dollars _ and sent my teenage son to iran illegally to work. my younger sons collect rubbish everyday. "we have nothing. where take our children and go?," they ask. four—year—old nazia lives next door. she has been sold to be married to a boy from the southern province of kandahar. child cries her father announced at the local mosque that he wanted to sell her because he couldn't afford to feed his family. at 14, nazia will be sent away. translation: | used most - of the money to buy food and some for medicine for my son. look at him — he's malnourished and needs treatment. i'd never think of selling my daughter if there

was any other option. we didn't have to look hard to find these stories. they were behind every door we walked into. from what we've seen and heard we know that there is a disaster unfolding on the ground here. hunger is a slow and silent killer and often its effects aren't immediately visible. but the truth is we will never know the scale of what is happening here because no one is counting. people here feel abandoned, by everyone — by the government that is currently running this country and by the whole world. this is an emergency. more than half the country needs life—saving support. millions are a step away from famine. yogita limaye, bbc news, herat. police will be sending texts to about 70,000 people over the next 48 hours to warn them they've been victims of fraudsters trying to steal their money. in the uk's biggest anti—fraud operation, the metropolitan police

have arrested a man accused of running an international service enabling fake phone calls. some victims have lost thousands of pounds. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, explains. the met says it's the biggest—ever proactive operation to take down fraudsters, and there's a new strategy — taking down their tools. specifically a website thought to have been used by nearly 60,000 criminals worldwide and alleged to have been run from this flat in east london. ispoof has been closed by the fbi. it provided a server which criminals could use to call victims anonymously, pretending to be their bank. we are all used to these one—time passwords that come to your phone, for example, and you need to somehow con somebody to give you that over the phone. that's the core of this. and to do that you need to impersonate perhaps being their bank. to impersonate their bank you need

specialist software that allows your ordinary phone to pretend to be a bank phone. and that's what was at the core of this. detectives got data from the website server. some victims had lost £10,000. one, £3 million. police believe ispoof allowed criminals to make up to 20 calls a minute to people around the world. in the uk they have evidence of 200,000 potential victims, possibly more. for some of those they have a suspect and a phone number of the victim, but no name or address, so for the first time they're sending 70,000 victims of fraud a mass text message. they'll say to go to the action fraud website to register your details, but of course there's now a concern that scammers will send their own messages posing as the police. so the advice is that the only place victims will be asked for their information will be on this website — actionfraud. police. uk.

a 34—year—old man has been charged with fraud and organised crime offences, but the investigation continues. police raids around the uk have resulted in 120 arrests. after breaking ispoof, their message to the scammers is — we know who you are. tom symonds, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren. hello. we are continuing to see a band of rain sweeping eastwards across the uk today. it does not last very long but the winds are very gusty near that band of rain and it stays quite windy even after the rain clears across the south coast of england and through the irish sea. these are the temperatures by the time we get to the early evening. nine or 10 degrees. there is that band of rain with those gusty winds and thunderstorms. it sweeps through. the winds taking a while to ease down overnight. more heavy showers across the northern half of the uk. calming down by the end of the night

and temperatures in rural areas slipping away to around three degrees. the overnight showers by tomorrow are into the north sea. we will see some further wet weather coming eastwards across northern parts of scotland. the odd shower across the other parts of the uk but across the other parts of the uk but a dry day and more anyway of sunshine around. the wind is not as strong and gusty as today. temperature wise, around 10 degrees in the central belt of scotland, maybe 14 in south wales. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained byfive year old logan mwangi — nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years.

meanwhile — university staff across the uk are also walking out, and thousands of postal workers are staging a 48—hour strike. more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune, the highest level on record. ambulances bosses warn of "cripling delays" as new figures reveal almost 30% of paramedics in england have been stuck waiting half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children. the uk's biggest ever anti—fraud operation — 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police. sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre.

good afternoon. to the world cup in qatar. we've seen some shocks over the last couple of days — there have also been some 0—0 results. we got that in the lunchtime kick off today — between uruguay and south korea. uruguay went close towards the end — federico valverde rattling the upright. it was a game of few chances — son heung min, south korea's captain, going close. but nothing to separate the sides. goalless in the group h opener. the next match sees cristiano ronaldo and portugal enter the tournament against ghana. that game get underway within the next half hour. ronaldo is now without a club side — after he and manchester united agreed to terminate his contract this week. that followed his controversial interview where he spoke of not respecting manager erik ten hag. he didn't talk much publicly yesterday — as he dropped out of the traditional captain's press conference. the first of today's four matches saw switzerland kick off their campaign with a win. and a moment to rememberfor the man

who got their winner. the swiss beat cameroon in group g and it was their cameroon—born striker breel embolo, who scored the only goal of the game, early in the second half. embolo decided not to celebrate — raising both hands while appearing to apologise. embolo was born in yaounde, but received swiss citizenship in 2014 after spending his youth career in the country. brazil are favourites to win the whole tournament for a sixth time. they finish off the day in the evening kick off as they look to match switzerland in their group with a victory. big things are expected after a disappointing quarter—final exit in russia four years ago. they play serbia this evening — live on bbc one at seven o'clock. wales have trained today ahead of their game against iran tomorrow. a win against iran would put them in a very strong position, going into theirfinal game against england next week. midfielderjoe allen is fit again — after missing their draw with the us on monday. the medical team have been exceptional with him and they are the reason he is now in a position

where he is fit and raring to go. we were all concerned about him because of the extent of the injury and he kept breaking down so we let him meet targets along the way and they have met every target and last week they pushed him to 100% and it was a gamble and if he had broken down he would have been completely out of the tournament. we could not have pushed him for the us state team, i decided against it, because when we looked at the group and the confidence we have to get out of the group, i want him for the long term —— we could have pushed him for the usa team. england manager gareth southgate says captain harry kane is fit to face the usa tomorrow. he went off injured in monday's 6—2 victory against iran but a scan on his ankle showed no significant issues. james maddison is the only player still struggling for fitness, for a game, if england win, would almost guarantee their progression. the first objective is to get out of the group and you have got three games to do it and we would love to do that on friday which means the

next few days are a bit calmer, like the last few days have been a bit calmer, but you cannot predict anything in football, and certainly the game will not be like the game was on monday because no two halves of the same. —— are. the england squad trained earlier today. usa midfielder yunus musah says he's looking forward to playing in the �*biggest match of his life' against england. musah was born in the us but grew up in london — and is a former england youth captain. do be playing england, what a special game. —— to be. i have lived in england and i know what england is like as a society, as people, and knowing that the whole of england will be watching that game, as well as the us, what a big game that will be for me, just a special moment and i hope it goes well. i’m be for me, just a special moment and i hope it goes well.— i hope it goes well. i'm sure encland i hope it goes well. i'm sure england fans _ i hope it goes well. i'm sure england fans disagree i i hope it goes well. i'm sure england fans disagree with i i hope it goes well. i'm sure i england fans disagree with him. that's all the sport for now. we will speak to you later.

net migration to the uk has climbed to a record half a million, driven by a series of world events including the war in ukraine and the end of lockdown restrictions. new figures from the office for national statistics suggestjust over half a million more people are estimated to have moved to the uk than left, in the 12 months tojune 2022 — a sharp rise on the previous year. the rise is driven by people arriving legally from outside the eu and the resumption of post—pandemic travel. reception of afghan and ukrainian refugees and people from hong kong are otherfactors. the government has promised to cut net migration — the difference between the numbers entering and leaving the uk. over the next 20 minutes or so we're going to discuss the whole issue in a little more detail. with me in the studio is our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani. we're also joined by madeleine sumption who's director of the migration observatory at the university of oxford.

we will be talking to both of them in just a little we will be talking to both of them injust a little moment. we also have a guestjoining us from albania it will be helping us us to understand the factors that have increased the asylum applications from albania that we have heard about in recent months. we will speak to all of them in just a moment. let's speak to dominic, our home affairs correspondent. what is the picture that the figures tell us? ~ :, , :, , :, us? we get regular updates on the trend of migration _

us? we get regular updates on the trend of migration and _ us? we get regular updates on the trend of migration and the - trend of migration and the significant thing is a new figure for net migration, and net migration is basically the balance between the number of people coming into the uk for more than a year at a time versus the number of people leaving the uk, people who are emigrating, that includes british citizens, who are going to another life elsewhere. what we have learned is that 1.1 million people came to the uk in the year tojune 2022 and we tracked immigration that we have a net migration figure of 504000 and that is a record. it has never been that high before, is coagulated by the office for national statistics. much higher than the trend we saw in the lead up to the brexit referendum when it was around 350,000 or thereabouts. so this is a significant change. students are the single largest group within that, about 277,000 students with visas,

granted in the year tojune, that was almost a double of what it was before. workers from outside the eu, 151,000 of them. and then other visas, similar number to the students, including people coming forfamily reasons, students, including people coming for family reasons, family settlement, reunification, and also humanitarian reasons, we have taken people from around the world. 144,000 ukrainians have come to the uk since the conflict began. the data reasons not all of those are in the figures today but we also have a small number from afghanistan. remember the evacuations from last year and also 144,000 people from hong kong who are entitled to live in the uk as british nationals who are normally based overseas but have been basically exercising their right to come to the uk because of the growing instability and security problem in hong kong. it is a really complex figure, complex picture, but fundamentally this is a record year

for net migration.— for net migration. these figures encompass _ for net migration. these figures encompass migration _ for net migration. these figures encompass migration as - for net migration. these figures encompass migration as a i for net migration. these figures i encompass migration as a whole, the headlines have been full of details about the situation with people trying to cross the english channel and seeking asylum but these figures are not specifically about that, this is about migration as a bigger picture. this is about migration as a bigger icture. :, , , :, picture. that is exactly right. to -ut picture. that is exactly right. to ut this picture. that is exactly right. to put this into _ picture. that is exactly right. to put this into context, _ picture. that is exactly right. to put this into context, we - picture. that is exactly right. to put this into context, we are i put this into context, we are talking about 1.1 million people who have come in the year tojune 2022, for a variety of reasons, these are people who are properly documented, basically entering the british system to have a life here, either temporarily or permanently. the number of people who have crossed the english channel this year is 40,000, in straightforward maths terms it is a very small number compared to the other forms of migration so a big difference between the two. the english channel is a very visible thing but it

really is not the story of what is going on with global migration. brute going on with global migration. we will come back to you in a moment. we can now speak to madeleine. is this exceptional, is this a or is this exceptional, is this a or is this part a trend of an embedded change? —— is this unusual. this part a trend of an embedded change? -- is this unusual. there is a coincidence _ change? -- is this unusual. there is a coincidence of _ change? -- is this unusual. there is a coincidence of various _ change? -- is this unusual. there is a coincidence of various different i a coincidence of various different circumstances that have come together— circumstances that have come together at this moment is to make the numbers higher than we would expect— the numbers higher than we would expect over the long term, so if you look at _ expect over the long term, so if you look at the — expect over the long term, so if you look at the increase over the last few years. — look at the increase over the last few years, the biggest increase is from _ few years, the biggest increase is from humanitarian schemes including ukraine _ from humanitarian schemes including ukraine and _ from humanitarian schemes including ukraine and hong kong which did not exist a _ ukraine and hong kong which did not exist a few— ukraine and hong kong which did not exist a few years ago but have now contributed quite a lot to the overall— contributed quite a lot to the overall numbers. five years down the line we _ overall numbers. five years down the line we don't— overall numbers. five years down the line we don't expect to still be receiving — line we don't expect to still be receiving significant numbers of people — receiving significant numbers of

people fleeing ukraine and hong kong _ people fleeing ukraine and hong kong. the other international student— kong. the other international student numbers have gone up quite substantially. what is interesting about _ substantially. what is interesting about international students is that over a _ about international students is that over a period of years, the large majority— over a period of years, the large majority actually go home, but it takes _ majority actually go home, but it takes a _ majority actually go home, but it takes a couple of years for that to happen— takes a couple of years for that to happen and so when you have an increase — happen and so when you have an increase in— happen and so when you have an increase in the numbers they contribute to immigration figures on the way— contribute to immigration figures on the way in _ contribute to immigration figures on the way in but they don't start subtracting from net migration until they leave _ subtracting from net migration until they leave and say what that means is we _ they leave and say what that means is we are _ they leave and say what that means is we are going to have a quite unusual— is we are going to have a quite unusual period lasting a good couple of years _ unusual period lasting a good couple of years or— unusual period lasting a good couple of years or so. where you have higher— of years or so. where you have higher than— of years or so. where you have higher than expected levels of net migration— higher than expected levels of net migration until emigration catches up migration until emigration catches up so _ migration until emigration catches up so the — migration until emigration catches up so the takeaway is do not assume the figures _ up so the takeaway is do not assume the figures are the new normal we are going — the figures are the new normal we are going to have over the next ten years _ are going to have over the next ten years this— are going to have over the next ten years this is— are going to have over the next ten years. this is a relatively unusual period _ years. this is a relatively unusual period we — years. this is a relatively unusual period we have currently got. you mention period we have currently got. gm. mention students as part of the numbers, let's speak to one. we have

a student from spain and who is now in london. what was the appeal of coming to the uk and london to do your studying? i coming to the uk and london to do your studying?— your studying? i first moved to london to _ your studying? i first moved to london to work— your studying? i first moved to london to work and _ your studying? i first moved to london to work and then i i your studying? i first moved to i london to work and then i decided to start my— london to work and then i decided to start my course — london to work and then i decided to start my course at _ london to work and then i decided to start my course at uni _ london to work and then i decided to start my course at uni when - london to work and then i decided to start my course at uni when i- london to work and then i decided to start my course at uni when i was. london to work and then i decided to start my course at uni when i was it i start my course at uni when i was it so the _ start my course at uni when i was it so the system — start my course at uni when i was it so the system was _ start my course at uni when i was it so the system was good _ start my course at uni when i was it so the system was good because ii start my course at uni when i was it i so the system was good because i had student— so the system was good because i had student finance — so the system was good because i had student finance and _ so the system was good because i had student finance and i _ so the system was good because i had student finance and i did _ so the system was good because i had student finance and i did not- so the system was good because i had student finance and i did not have i student finance and i did not have to pay— student finance and i did not have to pay up— student finance and i did not have to pay upfront _ student finance and i did not have to pay up front. and _ student finance and i did not have to pay up front. and the - student finance and i did not have to pay up front. and the business| to pay up front. and the business readiness— to pay up front. and the business readiness of— to pay up front. and the business readiness of the _ to pay up front. and the business readiness of the course _ to pay up front. and the business readiness of the course is - to pay up front. and the business readiness of the course is so i to pay up front. and the businessi readiness of the course is so much better— readiness of the course is so much better compared _ readiness of the course is so much better compared to _ readiness of the course is so much better compared to the _ readiness of the course is so much better compared to the ones i readiness of the course is so much better compared to the ones in i better compared to the ones in spain — better compared to the ones in spain in — better compared to the ones in spain. in spain— better compared to the ones in spain. in spain it— better compared to the ones in spain. in spain it is— better compared to the ones in spain. in spain it is like - 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three days and i could still work and live my life socially. that. and live my life socially. that appealed _ and live my life socially. that appealed a _ and live my life socially. that appealed a tot _ and live my life socially. that appealed a lot to _ and live my life socially. that appealed a lot to me - and live my life socially. that appealed a lot to me and - and live my life socially. that| appealed a lot to me and also and live my life socially. that- appealed a lot to me and also the 'ob appealed a lot to me and also the job prospects— appealed a lot to me and also the job prospects after— appealed a lot to me and also the job prospects after uni. _ appealed a lot to me and also the job prospects after uni. here - appealed a lot to me and also the job prospects after uni. here we i job prospects after uni. here we have _ job prospects after uni. here we have got— job prospects after uni. here we have got internships _ job prospects after uni. here we have got internships and - 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better opportunity for me to stay here and do my— better opportunity for me to stay here and do my course _ better opportunity for me to stay here and do my course here. - better opportunity for me to stay. here and do my course here. what about once — here and do my course here. what about once the _ here and do my course here. what about once the course _ here and do my course here. what about once the course has - here and do my course here.- about once the course has finished? do you plan to stay in london? i’m do you plan to stay in london? i'm currently working at a construction firm and _ currently working at a construction firm and that — currently working at a construction firm and that is— currently working at a construction firm and that is my— currently working at a construction firm and that is my plan, - currently working at a construction firm and that is my plan, to- currently working at a construction firm and that is my plan, to work. firm and that is my plan, to work for them — firm and that is my plan, to work for them a — firm and that is my plan, to work for them a bit _ firm and that is my plan, to work for them a bit more. _ firm and that is my plan, to work for them a bit more. hopefully. firm and that is my plan, to work for them a bit more. hopefully ii for them a bit more. hopefully i have _ for them a bit more. hopefully i have the — for them a bit more. hopefully i have the chance _ for them a bit more. hopefully i have the chance to _ for them a bit more. hopefully i have the chance to move - for them a bit more. hopefully i| have the chance to move around for them a bit more. hopefully i. have the chance to move around in the uk _ have the chance to move around in the uk and — have the chance to move around in the uk and i— have the chance to move around in the uk and i would _ have the chance to move around in the uk and i would not _ have the chance to move around in the uk and i would not mind - have the chance to move around in l the uk and i would not mind going to scotland _ the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for — the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for a — the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for a little _ the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for a little bit _ the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for a little bit but _ the uk and i would not mind going to scotland for a little bit but my- scotland for a little bit but my ptah _ scotland for a little bit but my ptah is — scotland for a little bit but my ptah is to _ scotland for a little bit but my plan is to settle _ scotland for a little bit but my plan is to settle and _ scotland for a little bit but my plan is to settle and stay - scotland for a little bit but myi plan is to settle and stay here. scotland for a little bit but my- plan is to settle and stay here. we will come plan is to settle and stay here. will come back to you in a plan is to settle and stay here.“ will come back to you in a moment. dominic, if we are seeing rises across the board, they will be some people watching who voted for brexit thinking that, that part of the pledge was to bring net migration down and in some cases because they wanted to protect wages and jobs. how does this square with that? interesting question. bear in mind that a lot of people voted for

brexit for different reasons, taking into account the 52% of those who voted in favour brexit, a complex picture. clearly some of it was about migration and some of it was purely about the constitutional issue and whether we should have any legal connection with europe. the interesting thing, let's have a look at the eu and the non—eu trends and since brexit the number eu nationals coming into the uk have declined. so much so that at the moment we have a net loss every year so the numbers who are emigrating are exceeding the numbers who are arriving, about 51,000 more leaving than arriving in any given year. that is not necessarily to do with brexit and that could also be to do with economics, for example, if you are polish, it does not make as much economic sense to work in the uk now as it did about 5—6 years ago because of the strength of the pound

versus the local currency in poland. what the government can say is clearly there has been a change there with eu migration but they can't say the same for non—eu migration because while eu migration has gone down, migration from the rest of the world has gone up. not necessarily filling the same places in the economy but the fact is that change has happened. this leaves the government in a difficult position in terms of the narrative it is telling, the public. about ten years ago david cameron had a pledge to get net migration down to the tens of thousands and that pledge remained a commitment under his successor theresa may and it was quietly put to one side by boris johnson and we are not quite sure exactly what the situation is now other than a commitment to reduce net migration, that was in the 2019 conservative party manifesto. suella braverman the new home secretary said she would like to go back to that tens of thousands but it is a bit difficult to see how they can do that given this trend at the moment because even if this is a spike,

partly influenced by the changes after the pandemic, it is still very high. and it could remain high, maybe not at half a million, but maybe not at half a million, but maybe 250,000, who knows? so it is a big policy challenge. you maybe 250,000, who knows? so it is a his policy challenge-— big policy challenge. you mention it suella braverman _ big policy challenge. you mention it suella braverman and _ big policy challenge. you mention it suella braverman and she - big policy challenge. you mention it suella braverman and she has - big policy challenge. you mention it. suella braverman and she has issued a statement in the last few minutes saying we have welcomed hundreds of thousands of people to the uk this year following the devastating war in ukraine and the evacuation from afghanistan and the despicable crackdown on democratic rights in hong kong and she goes on to say that therefore it is understandable that therefore it is understandable that we have seen a record number of people coming to our country thanks to the generosity of the british people. the statement goes on, the immigration system allows us to provide refuge to those in need including 144,000 ukrainians are nearly 22,000 from afghanistan and over 144,000 from hong kong. she

adds that the public rightly expects us to control our borders and we remain committed to reducing migration over time in line with our manifesto commitments. the level of migration has put pressure on accommodation and health and other public services and she adds, we must make sure we have a sustainable balanced and controlled approach which is why we continue to keep our immigration policies under review, and suella braverman concludes, my priority remains tackling the rise in dangerous and illegal crossings and stopping the abuse of our system, it is vital we restore public confidence and take back control of our borders, she ends. madeleine is from the migration observatory. the home secretary refers there to the increase in applications from people seeking asylum and there has been a large increase on albania but very few

have been processed, explain the circumstances around that? the phenomenal _ circumstances around that? the phenomenal of _ circumstances around that? the phenomenal of albanian citizens crossing — phenomenal of albanian citizens crossing the channel in small boats is relatively recent and if you look back over — is relatively recent and if you look back over the period since people started _ back over the period since people started crossing in small boats around — started crossing in small boats around 2018, the large majority have not been _ around 2018, the large majority have not been from albania, they are more -- they— not been from albania, they are more -- they have — not been from albania, they are more —— they have been more iranians crossing — —— they have been more iranians crossing in — —— they have been more iranians crossing in that period, but then we did see _ crossing in that period, but then we did see a _ crossing in that period, but then we did see a big increase during that period _ did see a big increase during that period you — did see a big increase during that period. you ask about processing and one of— period. you ask about processing and one of the _ period. you ask about processing and one of the big challenges facing the asylum _ one of the big challenges facing the asylum system is notjust for albanian— asylum system is notjust for albanian applicants but across the board, _ albanian applicants but across the board, and that is that the number of decisions — board, and that is that the number of decisions being taken on those applications, the increasing number of asylum _ applications, the increasing number of asylum applications, it has not kept up _ of asylum applications, it has not kept up at — of asylum applications, it has not kept up at all with the number of people _ kept up at all with the number of people applying for asylum. and so what we _ people applying for asylum. and so what we have seen is a big backlog

building _ what we have seen is a big backlog building up from people who are waiting — building up from people who are waiting for an initial decision on their— waiting for an initial decision on their claim _ waiting for an initial decision on their claim and the most recent statistics— their claim and the most recent statistics published showing more than 140,000 people are waiting and that has— than 140,000 people are waiting and that has created a lot of pressure on the _ that has created a lot of pressure on the system because people cannot work while _ on the system because people cannot work while they are waiting for their— work while they are waiting for their claims and so they needed to be provided with housing and that has a _ be provided with housing and that has a knock—on effect for the ability— has a knock—on effect for the ability of— has a knock—on effect for the ability of the government to provide housing _ ability of the government to provide housing for asylum seekers. in some ways one _ housing for asylum seekers. in some ways one of— housing for asylum seekers. in some ways one of the biggest challenges facing _ ways one of the biggest challenges facing the government with the immigration side at the moment is the need _ immigration side at the moment is the need to speed up asylum processing and get that backlog down~ _ processing and get that backlog down i— processing and get that backlog down. . ., , ., down. i want to bring in our next cuest to down. i want to bring in our next guest to understand _ down. i want to bring in our next guest to understand why - down. i want to bring in our next l guest to understand why albanians have been crossing the english channel. she is a lecturer at university. thanks forjoining us. what is the situation in albania thatis what is the situation in albania that is driving people to take these

extraordinary risks with their lives to get to the uk?— to get to the uk? thank you very much. to get to the uk? thank you very much- and _ to get to the uk? thank you very much. and thank _ to get to the uk? thank you very much. and thank you _ to get to the uk? thank you very much. and thank you to - to get to the uk? thank you very much. and thank you to the - to get to the uk? thank you veryj much. and thank you to the bbc. albania is a country of origin for migrants and it is not the first time, almost 2 million albanians have left the country, since 1991, and as soon as communism fell, millions left. each million of albanians that left have settled in the likes of greece and they are not considered migrants any more, they arejust citizens considered migrants any more, they are just citizens these countries. contributing to the italian and greek economies. with the uk, after the pandemic, the report says the uk has only processed 2% of the asylum claims, so this very low rate of processing and the long time it takes for asylum claims to be processed has been tackled by smugglers who are going into remote areas in albania and who are really

selling this as a big opportunity for albanians to go to the uk with this new way crossing the english channel by a small boat. which was not invented by albanians, because iranians did this even more so before, as the report said. it is a very dangerous way of crossing the channel. it is a way that albanian migrants know anyway because most of them at the beginning of the 905 reached italy via boat on a much more dangerous sea. what brings this todayis more dangerous sea. what brings this today is really a combination of factors, with a long time it takes for the uk to process the asylum claims and on the other hand, the smugglers detecting this and taking advantage for their selves, instead of them being the target of all this increase in numbers, the immigrants are taking the blame. and looking at the figures of the report today, albanian immigrants crossing the

channel in small boats which has been a big noise in the uk, it is only 11,000, and compared to the big number of net migration that we are talking about today, about 504,000. the number of albanians crossing the english channel is 2.2% so really albanians feel bad about the representation and the big concern in the uk because we do not see ourselves as criminals. this is new to us, as well, this spike. the thing is. _ to us, as well, this spike. the thing is, something _ to us, as well, this spike. the thing is, something i- to us, as well, this spike. the thing is, something i hearwhen i do thing is, something i hear when i do vox pops and speak to people, they say, if it is to go in search of a better life or a safer lie, there are other countries that people will pass through on the way that could offer that so why take the risk of crossing the english channel to get to the uk? —— ora crossing the english channel to get to the uk? —— or a safer life. they are doing it from france which is a safe and prosperous country. i want

to sa a safe and prosperous country. i want to say a few — safe and prosperous country. i want to say a few things, _ safe and prosperous country. i want to say a few things, albanian - to say a few things, albanian applicants claim asylum in the uk because it would be the easiest one to be rejected or to process the asylum claim because albania is a nato country so very safe and it also has a high number of agreements between the uk and the albanian governments which help the uk government to process very fast the asylum claims from albania and this should make life easier for the asylum claims from albania and this should make life easierfor the uk but this is not happening and this slow process is the thing, it is the fact that smugglers are taking advantage of the process, they are putting their lives at risk and also the reputation of our country at risk. the immigrants do not come to the uk to claim asylum, they are instructed to claim asylum. albanian immigrants leave albania to go in search ofjobs and to contribute to the economy if possible.

search of jobs and to contribute to the economy if possible.— the economy if possible. briefly, briefl . i the economy if possible. briefly, briefly. i need _ the economy if possible. briefly, briefly. i need to _ the economy if possible. briefly, briefly. i need to go _ the economy if possible. briefly, briefly. i need to go to _ the economy if possible. briefly, briefly. i need to go to dominic. | briefly. i need to go to dominic. whilst the mega when they are settled and they have a job they are happy to go back —— when they are settled and they are happy to go back, they are happy to go back to albania. ~ . . back, they are happy to go back to albania. ~ . , ., , . albania. what is the home office sa in: albania. what is the home office saying about _ albania. what is the home office saying about this? _ albania. what is the home office saying about this? the _ albania. what is the home office saying about this? the home - albania. what is the home office i saying about this? the home office said this is going _ saying about this? the home office said this is going to _ saying about this? the home office said this is going to increase - saying about this? the home office said this is going to increase the - said this is going to increase the rate of processing and it has an incredible task ahead of it. it is the fact that processing has fallen off a cliff since 2018, and compared to a country like germany, germany receives far more people as part of its asylum system, compare to the uk and it processes them far more quickly. on the albanian think about what is interesting, as our guests, the numbers are a small proportion of the overall number of people

coming to the uk, but the national crime agency says that they are dealing with a sudden criminal phenomenon on amongst some of those because they are clearly criminal gangs who are identifying a route to get people into the uk partly on the basis that they think those people will never get kicked out and they are persuading people to undergo these dangerous journeys for a high short—term profits and it is entirely possible that somebody comes from albania may be for 6—9 months to work as part of a criminal enterprise, a cash in hand job, may be in a cannabis factory, something like that, and they go home, so it's a complex picture and a lot of the intelligence work about what is going on is still under way. i want to no going on is still under way. i want to go back — going on is still under way. i want to go back to _ going on is still under way. i want to go back to madeleine - going on is still under way. i want to go back to madeleine at - going on is still under way. i want to go back to madeleine at the i to go back to madeleine at the migration observatory. we heard from our student in london who is from spain. we know that businesses say they cannot fill vacancies, and we

see this is potentially a solution to this, but has any of the increase in people arriving benefited health and hospitality and the care sector which desperately needs more people? the biggest contributors to the increase — the biggest contributors to the increase over the last three years have _ increase over the last three years have been— increase over the last three years have been the humanitarian roots and international students, there has also been — international students, there has also been an increase in the number of people _ also been an increase in the number of people coming for work and that is primarily— of people coming for work and that is primarily people coming on skilled — is primarily people coming on skilled worker visas so not necessarily injobs in hospitality or food — necessarily injobs in hospitality or food processing, and other low-wage _ or food processing, and other low—wage jobs which have traditionally relied on migrant workers. _ traditionally relied on migrant workers, and it is more in fact that the biggest — workers, and it is more in fact that the biggest driver of demand for people _ the biggest driver of demand for people to come and work on those visas _ people to come and work on those visas has _ people to come and work on those visas has been the health sector. it is difficult — visas has been the health sector. it is difficult to overstate the extent to which — is difficult to overstate the extent to which demand in the nhs and social— to which demand in the nhs and social care — to which demand in the nhs and social care has driven those increases _ social care has driven those increases over the last few years. it is increases over the last few years. it is by— increases over the last few years. it is by far— increases over the last few years. it is by far the biggest factor. i want it is by far the biggest factor. want to it is by far the biggest factor. i want to speak to our student in

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this is bbc news. i'm ben boulos. the headlines: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by five—year—old logan mwangi nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. this review, amongst a number of otherfindings, identify this review, amongst a number of other findings, identify service failures where agencies could and should have acted differently. for these failures, we take full responsibility and apologise. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland, teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years. we have got a cost of living crisis,

and we've got a backdrop of teachers' pay having to climb to the tune of 25% since 2008, so understandably, they are very, very angry. meanwhile, university staff across the uk are also walking out, and thousands of postal workers are staging a 48—hour strike. more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune, the highest level on record. ambulances bosses warn of "crippling delays" as new figures reveal almost 30% of paramedics in england have been stuck waiting half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban—controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children. the uk's biggest ever anti—fraud operation — 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police.

good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a review published in the past hour has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by a young boy nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. five—year—old logan mwangi was killed by his mother, stepfather and a teenage boy at his home near bridgend injuly last year. the chair of the safeguarding review, jan pickles, said that if further information from health officials had been shared, it likely would have triggered a child protection assessment. logan was first taken to hospital in mid—august, 2020, following him allegedly falling down the stairs. hospital staff notified children's

services emergency duty team. they had concerns in respect of the delayed presentation. upon further examination, other injuries were noted. the explanation provided by his mother, and was apparently accepted. the further injuries were not shared or shown to children'sservices. this was a major missed opportunity for logan. have further information been shared, we no we cannot say for sure because of hindsight bias, would have triggered a child protection review, because the nature of those injuries clearly met the threshold. our wales correspondent tomos morgan is in bridgend. tomos, it was a horrific case, and the review detailed some of the distressing details of what led to

logan's death, and also, certain findings that were quite scathing as well. talk us through the main points. yes, i guess it is worth reminding everything, the timeline, the process of events as this took place here as you heard from jam pickles. the key event that they singled out in their report that they were critical of was that occasion of the 16th of august, 2020, when logan did go to a&e, was seen by a paediatric consultant. he had a broken upper arm, but a consultant. he had a broken upper arm, buta number of consultant. he had a broken upper arm, but a number of other significant injuries, as the panel had described them, and at that point, that information was not shared, and also, a child protection referrals was not made, and they are saying that, had that been done, maybe some things could have been different. now a number of other things happened after that as well. a few months after that, his mother, angharad williamson, someone convicted of logan's murder, said that it was actually the 15—year—old, another convicted of

logan's murda, who actually pushed logan's murda, who actually pushed logan down the stairs in that incident in august as well. now, another key recommendation from today's trial practice review is that the welsh government should consider and review looking into how agencies involved, the police, social services, agencies involved, the police, socialservices, health agencies involved, the police, social services, health workers, agencies involved, the police, socialservices, health workers, how they share social services, health workers, how they share and socialservices, health workers, how they share and gather information, because that has been a key part of this finding of this review, and thatis this finding of this review, and that is something that has come up time time again in similar trial practice reviews, and in serious case reviews over the border in england. i put that point of the children's commissioner earlier today, that this is a running theme when it comes to these sorts of reviews, and she said that thing is should go further. the welsh government should conduct a full review looking at the accountability of the structures underpinning social child protection in wales. in response, the welsh government has said that there are certain programmes in place to transform children services in wales, and now is not the right time for another review, now is the time to implement

those further changes. but this has been a horrific case. the court case was horrific for the family and for logan's biological father, was horrific for the family and for logan's biologicalfather, who was not informed at any point when social services and the agencies were discussing logan's events at home. one of the key finding, really, and one thing that was mentioned time and again today was the impact of covid, and how that impeded those safeguarding agencies in being able to really get a true picture of how logan was living his life behind closed doors, outside of the watchful eye of anyone else. and tomos, the extent of the injuries he suffered the distressing and disturbing nature of the case, we saw in the aftermath, even the professionals, the police, those involved, they suffered trauma as a result of dealing with this case. this was such a standout case that,

i mean, in some ways it is hard to see how those opportunities were missed. but i suppose this review is not about pinpointing blame, is it? it is more about learning how it can be avoided in future? that's exactly right, and that was a key theme from the review and press conference we heard a few hours ago, that it was not about apportioning blame. they were keen to stress that it was about reviewing the systems in place and learning from them. but you are right, this has been a truly horrific case. you know, logan was brutally beaten and killed by angharad williamson, his stepfather john cole, and 15—year—old craig monica and in his home, and then his body was dumped less than hundred metres away from his family home. the detail heard on the court case was truly horrific. as you say, i remember when the police gave their statements and a number of their officers had been affected by the

investigation themselves, and they hope they do not have to deal with anything like this again, that lessons will be learned from today's really are. thank you very much, tomos morgan, speaking to us from bridgend. tens of thousands of workers are on strike in a series of walkouts across the uk, affecting schools, universities and royal mail sorting offices. scotland is facing its first national strike by teachers for nearly 40 years after a revised pay offer was rejected by unions as "insulting". meanwhile, lecturers and other academic staff at universities are taking industrial action over pay, pensions and contracts. we'll have more on that in a moment. first, our correspondent alexandra mackenzie has the latest on the impact on primary and secondary state schools across scotland. what do we want? 10%! they braved the cold at this picket line in cambuslang this morning. most primary and secondary schools across the country are closed. thousands of teachers

from scotland's biggest teachers' union, the eis, are striking over pay. they should have had a pay rise in their bank accounts on the 15t of april — they have received nothing, zero. we are now towards the end of november, we've got a cost of living crisis and we've got a backdrop of teachers' pay having declined to the tune of 25% since 2008, so understandably they are very, very angry. the latest deal on the table would have seen lower paid teachers receive a rise of up to 6.85%, more than the previous 5% offer but well below the 10% increase the unions want. teachers say they're angry and frustrated at the latest pay offer, but the scottish government says 10% is just not affordable. we have a fixed budget and it is already fully utilised for this year so to do anything that would increase the resolution we have on this would mean that money would have to come from elsewhere, so i'm very disappointed we're moving to strike action.

it's disruption for our children and young people and their families that we simply don't want to see. for some parents it will be difficult to find additional childcare. this tennis camp is helping out. i would probably rather be in school but i do like playing tennis. i like writing in school- so we were going to be doing a bit of comic strips, _ and i'm quite sad i'm missing that. it's the first national teachers' strike in almost 40 years. planned for the new year. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news, cambuslang. any sign of any possible resolution to this, james? i’m any sign of any possible resolution to this, james?— to this, james? i'm afraid there really isn't _ to this, james? i'm afraid there rea things _ to this, james? i'm afraid there rea things that _ to this, james? i'm afraid there

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james, thank you very much for that. james shaw, our scotland correspondent. as we've heard, university staff have walked out across the country on the first of three days of strikes about pay, working conditions and pensions. our education correspondent vanessa clarke reports. anger and frustration on the picket line. pay issues, insecure contracts and changes to their pension schemes have led to staff at more than 150 universities walking out in protest today. for nathan howard, who is a postgrad researcher, he believes conditions will eventually force him out of a job he loves. you officially sort of have to take the low pay — that's, you know, worse, and it's getting worse many students are backing the strikes but are worried about even more disruption to their studies following the pandemic. for a lot of students i can say it is quite frustrating, especially if you are in the beginning years of your university. as a third year myself i am able

to cope with that much more and professors have given us the option of sort of, like, out of office hours and giving us extra support when needed. we turned up to university— is what we thought was a hub of sort of knowledge and empowerment, and then you learn that _ i the industry's professionals aren'tl getting the treatment they deserve. it's very saddening. universities say they are disappointed by today's action and that the pay demands are unrealistic. we are trying to do everything we can within the environments that we are operating with the funding that we've got to make sure that we are fair and transparent in the way in which we support our staff. my number one priority at the moment is to make sure that we don't disadvantaged students. disadvantage students. frankly, they've had a really difficult time over the past few years with covid. this is the last thing that they need. the staff here and across the uk will be back again tomorrow for the second of three days of planned strike action, but if negotiations continue to end

in deadlock there may be much more disruption for students in the coming months. vanessa clark, bbc news, sheffield. thousands of postal workers have begun a 48—hour strike in a long—running dispute about pay, jobs and conditions. royal mail said it had made its best and final offer to staff and accused unions of "holding christmas to ransom". unions say the offer on the table would "spell the end of royal mail as we know it". the head of the rmt union, mick lynch, has met with the transport secretary mark harper. mr lynch says the meeting was "positive". earlier this week the rmt union announced rail strikes around christmas. mr lynch said mr harper had agreed to write to him about how he sees the union's lengthy dispute with rail operators "going forward". what we are hoping for, and what mr harper has committed to, is giving us an outcome from this meeting which will be a letter to me saying

how he sees us going forward, and taking forward steps towards the resolution, and we laid out to him what we thought he should do, and he has acknowledged some of that. transport secretary mark harper said talks were "productive", but that his job wasn't to do the detailed negotiations. he andi he and i both agree that this was a productive — he and i both agree that this was a productive meeting. it was the first one that _ productive meeting. it was the first one that we have had. i think it struck— one that we have had. i think it struck the _ one that we have had. i think it struck the right tone. i think there was a _ struck the right tone. i think there was a shared agreement in the meeting — was a shared agreement in the meeting. we both want to have a thriving _ meeting. we both want to have a thriving railway that is sustainable for the _ thriving railway that is sustainable for the future, that serves passengers, that serves the country, and also _ passengers, that serves the country, and also provides good, well—paid 'obs and also provides good, well—paid jobs for— and also provides good, well—paid jobs for the people he represents. and i_ jobs for the people he represents. and i think— jobs for the people he represents. and i think there is a lot of shared agreement— and i think there is a lot of shared agreement there, but we need to have the two _ agreement there, but we need to have the two sides, the trade unions and the two sides, the trade unions and the employers, sit down, agree on the employers, sit down, agree on the detail, — the employers, sit down, agree on the detail, so that we can bring this dispute to an end. i think that's— this dispute to an end. i think that's where we both have a shared

interest~ _ you are watching bbc news. a reminder of the headlines: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injury sustained by five—year—old logan mwangi nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland, teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years. more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune, the highest level on record. let's stay with that story. net migration to the uk has climbed to a record half a million, driven by a series of world events including the war in ukraine and the end of lockdown restrictions. new figures from the office for national statistics suggestjust over half a million more people are estimated to have moved to the uk than left, in the 12 months tojune 2022 —

a sharp rise on the previous year. our home editor, mark easton, gave us more details. you do need to understand what is going on though and within that number, students are actually a very significant part of those who have arrived. 476,000 students came in that year tojune and that in part is because a lot of students did not come during the pandemic, may be delayed the study, so we are seeing a bit of a bulge of the number of people coming to study in the uk and many people would argue they are extremely valuable to reducing the cost of further and higher education in britain. as you say, ukrainians, we think that something... in the period we are looking for net migration, around 170,000 ukrainians, in total 200,000 ukrainians have come, the vast majority of them have been free in the war in their country. and has come under a specific bespoke route that the government created, many of them. and so again, these are people who specifically were invited

and will almost certainly return to their homeland when the situation settles down. mark eastern there. there's growing evidence that the french coastguard failed to respond adequately to the migrant boat that sank in the channel a year ago today. 27 people died when the boat sank, and several others are still missing. only two passengers survived. documents seen by the bbc suggest that french operators repeatedly told passengers to call the uk, despite evidence they were sometimes in french waters. uk investigators have said that british "surface and air assets" were sent to search for the boat but found nothing. our paris corr lucy williamson has this report from northern france. tragedy has changed little on the channel. one year on, the flow of migrants has only increased. the deaths of at least 27 people didn't even change the cost of a passage, the risk of disaster already priced in.

tuana was 18 years old when he called coastguards from the sinking boat a year ago, a young footballer from iraqi kurdistan. his body has never been found. his brother, here in france to help the investigation, said his advice was always, if you are in trouble, call the police. translation: the two survivors confirmed they were constantly l in touch with french and british authorities, continuously sent them the location. after reading the legal report, i found that their phone calls were dismissed and answered with mockery. these people were not viewed as human beings. the french coastguard first received the distress call from the boat at 1:48am. at that point, it seemed to be half a mile inside french waters. documents seen by the bbc suggest operators did not call in rescuers as promised and, instead, contacted the uk. they repeatedly told desperate

and screaming passengers to call the british coastguard. "you are in english waters," one says. "wait, i'll transfer you to the uk." another tells french emergency services they've been calling nonstop. "we know they are more or less in the english zone." boats in trouble can drift between french and british waters, complicating the rescue response. i believe that vesselj is now in uk waters. and there are warnings that resources are increasingly stretched as small boat crossings rise. france's sea minister told parliament that any negligence found by the investigation would lead to sanctions. there are people here who said this was a disaster waiting to happen, and it is not the only time desperate passengers have been passed back and forth between rescue teams in britain and france. we have heard evidence that another migrant boat calling for help

from the channel experienced the same response just a few days before. we dialled 99, were talking, they said call to france, and when we were with the french, they said call to the united kingdom. and the both of them is laughing at us. these messages were received by a migrant helpline in dunkirk four days before the channel disaster. raphael cousin who took the call says a french lifeboat came to rescue them. when someone is in distress, theyjust need to be saved as soon as possible. so there is no time to talk about who is going to save them and in which boat are they going to be returned? one year on from the channel disaster, investigators have yet to report their findings as each month, thousands more steer their way between trust and tragedy, aiming for british shores. lucy williamson, bbc news, calais.

let's speak now to christa rottensteiner, who is the uk chief of mission at the international organization for migration, which is the united nations' migration agency. very good to have year with us. how do we deal with that situation, where there is uncertainty about which water is a boat that may be in trouble is in, and whose responsibility it is to provide rescue support? it responsibility it is to provide rescue support?— responsibility it is to provide rescue support? responsibility it is to provide rescue su ort? , . , rescue support? it is indeed a very tricky situation. _ rescue support? it is indeed a very tricky situation. i— rescue support? it is indeed a very tricky situation. i think _ rescue support? it is indeed a very tricky situation. i think what - rescue support? it is indeed a very tricky situation. i think what is - tricky situation. i think what is the most important one, and the one i always insist on, is coordination and good communication between governments is essential. by definition, migration is across borders, and we need to make sure there is good communication. but what is even more important is that we take a really holistic view. so, why are people actually taking these dangerous journeys? why are people actually taking these

dangerousjourneys? a report on missing migrants hasjust been released, and the figures are absolutely shocking. so we have heard about the tragedy in the english channel, but globally, since 2014, 50,000 migrants have died or have gone missing, and we know that the realfigure is probably much higher. and the figures are shocking, but what is also shocking is that we have found that many of these deaths could have been avoided, and one of the contributing factors is that there is simply not sufficient legal roots, so people feel forced to take these dangerous journeys because they have no other options, and we very much appeal that no one should need to risk their lives. there should be more legal routs made available. this is notjust the uk, issue, though, is it? we have seen tension between france and italy over who should take in a boat that had migrants that were trying to cross from north africa.

this is something that is common to many european countries and are you seeing any patterns or consistency in the way that these kind of situations are being dealt with across these different nations? well, what we do see is that there is not enough coordination really happening, and there isn't a sufficiently holistic approach. very often, governments tend to look at how migrants can be kept out. we need to really make sure that migrants get supported, that they can be protected along the route. because, coming back to the uk situation, many across the channel deserve protection, so the statistics are just come out that in the last 12 months, 77% of those who claimed asylum in the uk have been

granted that status, so it shows that people really deserve that international protection and they should not be forced to take these difficultjourneys. there should be more ways for them to arrive in a regularised situation. and we also need to look at what upstream. so why are people actually moving? we need to do more to try to address the root causes, because we are seeing more and more people who are fleeing conflict, who are fleeing desperate situations. we have over 80 million people who have been forcibly displaced, and we have just heard from the unhcr, only 1% of refugees are able to be resettled, so that's a really important national protection route. this so that's a really important national protection route. as far as the uk is concerned, _ national protection route. as far as the uk is concerned, a _ national protection route. as far as the uk is concerned, a statement i the uk is concerned, a statement from the home secretary this afternoon referring to the high net migration figures we have seen in the year tojune, she points out that the immigration system has

provided refuge for 144,000 from ukraine, 23,000 applicants from afghanistan, and over 144,000 from hong kong, but she said the public rightly expects us to control our borders and we remain committed to reducing migration over time in line with a manifesto commitment. so, from the home secretary's point of view, the uk is doing its bit, is it not? i view, the uk is doing its bit, is it not? . view, the uk is doing its bit, is it not? , , . view, the uk is doing its bit, is it not? . , . ., , not? i believe the uk is a generous reciient, not? i believe the uk is a generous recipient. and _ not? i believe the uk is a generous recipient, and we _ not? i believe the uk is a generous recipient, and we are _ not? i believe the uk is a generous recipient, and we are supporting i recipient, and we are supporting these efforts to bring refugees to these efforts to bring refugees to the uk. but we do think, and this is notjust a uk issue, more could be done to provide that sanctuary. because 1% is simply not enough of refugees to get their protection, so we need to look at increasing the numbers. but we also need to see if anything could be done to make existing schemes more efficient. for example, the family reunification scheme is a very generous way of

bringing family members to the uk. iom is supporting these efforts to reunite families, and it's very important, and we have brought 15,000 over the last ten years also to the uk. but we have seen that more could be done to make the system more efficient and more accessible, so we have heard stories of families who were simply waiting too long, and then family members took very dangerous journeys because they just took very dangerous journeys because theyjust have lost hope, so this is what we really need to tackle with. the desperation, making sure we have more legal roots, but also, as i was mentioning, to have a more holistic approach, more between governments. 0k. approach, more between governments. ok. christa rottensteiner, thank you. ok. christa rottensteiner, thank ou. . ~' ok. christa rottensteiner, thank ou. . ~ , ., you. thank you. well. _ you. thank you. well, we - you. thank you. - well, we mentioned you. thank you. _ well, we mentioned afghanistan there.

15 months after the taliban took control of afghanistan, the united nations has described the humanitarian situation there as a catastrophe. the country's economy has collapsed, the healthcare system is crumbling and six million people are on the brink of starvation. the bbc has found evidence that some families are being forced to take extreme steps, including selling their daughters into early marriage to pay forfood and medicine. our afghanistan correspondent yogita limaye reports from the city of herat. just outside herat live tens of thousands displaced by years of war and natural disasters. a second winter since the economy collapsed. in each home, a story of acute hunger. they came to us wanting to be heard. we were shocked by what they said. "our children cry because they're going to bed hungry so we give them tablets to put them to sleep. they'd be better off dead," abdul rahab said. does anyone else also do the same thing? "a lot of us, all of us," they said.

ghulam hazrat was carrying the tablets with him. they were tranquilisers. others later also showed us antidepressants they give their children. in the market you can get five tablets for the price of one piece of bread. ghulam said he gives it to his one—year—old. these men, their dignity broken by hunger. translation: i sold my five-year-old daughter for 1,200 dollars _ and sent my teenage son to iran illegally to work. my younger sons collect rubbish everyday. "we have nothing. where take our children and go?," they ask. four—year—old nazia lives next door. she has been sold to be married

to a boy from the southern province of kandahar. child cries her father announced at the local mosque that he wanted to sell her because he couldn't afford to feed his family. at 14, nazia will be sent away. translation: | used most - of the money to buy food and some for medicine for my son. look at him — he's malnourished and needs treatment. i'd never think of selling my daughter if there was any other option. we didn't have to look hard to find these stories. they were behind every door we walked into. from what we've seen and heard we know that there is a disaster unfolding on the ground here. hunger is a slow and silent killer and often its effects aren't immediately visible. but the truth is we will never know the scale of what is happening here because no one is counting. people here feel abandoned, by everyone — by the government that is currently running this

country and by the whole world. this is an emergency. more than half the country needs life—saving support. millions are a step away from famine. yogita limaye, bbc news, herat. we have more downpours coming in from the west. together with more gusty winds and by the end of the night things calmed down a bit. with temperatures dipping away to around 45 degrees. the overnight showers into the north sea by morning but we will see more coming in across scotland, especially northern parts

of the country. lighter showers out towards the west but for many parts of the country tomorrow will be dry with sunshine. the wind is not as strong as today and temperatures reaching double figures. first half of the weekend, we started dry across eastern areas. some early sunshine but cloud heading our way. we have rain developing across scotland and wales and western parts of england and affecting northern ireland. strong winds bringing milder air northwards with temperatures in double figures. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by five—year—old logan mwangi nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland, teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years.

meanwhile, university staff across the uk are also walking out, and thousands of postal workers are staging a 48—hour strike. more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune, the highest level on record. ambulances bosses warn of "cripling delays" as new figures reveal almost 30% of paramedics in england have been stuck waiting half an hour or more for hospitals to accept their patients. the families in taliban controlled afghanistan now having to make shocking decisions so they can feed their children. the uk's biggest ever anti—fraud operation. 70,000 possible bank scam call victims are being contacted by the police. sport and for a full round up, let's go to the bbc sports centre.

good afternoon. all the teams at the qatar world cup will have featured today, with all the groups having now started. portugal, led by cristiano ronaldo, have kicked off against ghana for their opening match. ronaldo very much in the spotlight today, given he and manchester united agreed to terminate his contract this week. he could make history against the lowest ranked side in the tournament, ghana,becoming the first player to score at five different world cups. it's currently goalless at the moment in that it's currently goalless at the moment in that match. it's currently goalless at the moment in that match. around it's currently goalless at the moment in that match. around 15 minutes or so to go until half—time. both sides there will be hoping to take advantage in group h after uruguay and south korea played out a goalless draw. neither side really threatened too much. uruguay did hit the post in the latter moments with federico valverde's long range effort. son heung min went close for south korea late on too, but nothing to separate the sides. 0—0 the final score. the first of today's four matches saw switzerland get off the mark. and a moment to rememberfor the man who got their winner. the swiss beat cameroon in group g and it was their cameroon—born striker, breel embolo, who scored the only goal of the game early in the second half.

embolo decided not to celebrate, raising both hands while appearing to apologise. embolo was born in yaounde, but received swiss citizenship in 2014 after spending his youth career in the country. brazil are favourites to win the whole tournament for a sixth time. they finish off the day in the evening kick off as they look to match switzerland in their group with a victory. big things are expected after a disappointing quarter—final exit in russia four years ago. they play serbia this evening live on bbc one at 7:00pm. wales have trained today ahead of their game against iran tomorrow morning. a win against iran would put them in a very strong position going into theirfinal game against england next week. and midfielderjoe allen is fit again after missing their draw with the usa on monday. we weren't too happy about not being able to wear the armband with the

sanctions that could have been put in place which ultimately i know people said i should have known it but i would have been sent off after about 25 minutes. of course we supported but we are here to play football at the same time. for us, now the tournament has started we need to concentrate on the football but outside of the game if there is anything we can do to raise awareness or support then we will definitely do that. the england squad trained earlier today and england manager gareth southgate says captain harry kane is fit to face the usa tomorrow. he went off injured in monday's 6—2 victory against iran, but a scan on his ankle showed no significant issues. james maddison is the only player still struggling forfitness for a game, if england win, would almost guarantee their progression. harry maguire has been speaking about his form having failed to make the manchester united starting 11 the manchester united starting 11 the season. i the manchester united starting 11 the season-— the season. i give my all on the trainin: the season. i give my all on the

training pitch — the season. i give my all on the training pitch and _ the season. i give my all on the training pitch and that - the season. i give my all on the training pitch and that gives - the season. i give my all on the| training pitch and that gives you preparation to go into a game and perform to the best level. i went into the eurozone are back of an eight or ten week injury sol into the eurozone are back of an eight or ten week injury so i wasn't too worried about the lack of game time. obviously i want to be playing every week for my club, it's something i will fight to get back into the team, so it's not where i want to be but of course i feel fresh and i've worked hard on the training pitch to make sure i am ready when i get the opportunity to play. ready when i get the opportunity to -la . ready when i get the opportunity to . [a . ,, �* ready when i get the opportunity to . [a , ,, �* . play. the usa midfielder eunice malta says _ play. the usa midfielder eunice malta says he — play. the usa midfielder eunice malta says he looks _ play. the usa midfielder eunice malta says he looks forward - play. the usa midfielder eunice malta says he looks forward to l malta says he looks forward to playing the biggest match of his life against england. he was born in the us but grew up in london and is a former england youth captain. to be playing england, what a special game _ be playing england, what a special game that will be having lived in england — game that will be having lived in england and knowing how england are as a society _ england and knowing how england are as a society and as people. just to share _ as a society and as people. just to share the — as a society and as people. just to share the field with a knowing that the whole — share the field with a knowing that the whole of england will be watching that game as well as the

us, what— watching that game as well as the us, what a — watching that game as well as the us, what a big game it will be for me. us, what a big game it will be for me it's _ us, what a big game it will be for me it's a — us, what a big game it will be for me. it's a special moment and i hope it goes— me. it's a special moment and i hope it goes well — that's all the sport for now. police will be sending texts to about 70,000 people over the next 48 hours to warn them they've been victims of fraudsters trying to steal their money. in the uk's biggest anti—fraud operation, the metropolitan police have arrested a man accused of running an international service enabling fake phone calls. some victims have lost thousands of pounds. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds, explains. the met says it's the biggest—ever proactive operation to take down fraudsters, and there's a new strategy — taking down their tools. specifically a website thought to have been used by nearly 60,000 criminals worldwide and alleged to have been run from this flat in east london. ispoof has been closed by the fbi.

it provided a server which criminals could use to call victims anonymously, pretending to be their bank. we are all used to these one—time passwords that come to your phone, for example, and you need to somehow con somebody to give you that over the phone. that's the core of this. and to do that you need to impersonate perhaps being their bank. to impersonate their bank you need specialist software that allows your ordinary phone to pretend to be a bank phone. and that's what was at the core of this. detectives got data from the website server. some victims had lost £10,000. one, £3 million. police believe ispoof allowed criminals to make up to 20 calls a minute to people around the world. in the uk they have evidence of 200,000 potential victims, possibly more. for some of those they have a suspect and a phone number of the victim, but no name or address, so for the first time they're sending 70,000 victims of fraud a mass text message.

they'll say to go to the action fraud website to register your details, but of course there's now a concern that scammers will send their own messages posing as the police. so the advice is that the only place victims will be asked for their information will be on this website — actionfraud. police. uk. a 34—year—old man has been charged with fraud and organised crime offences, but the investigation continues. police raids around the uk have resulted in 120 arrests. after breaking ispoof, their message to the scammers is — we know who you are. tom symonds, bbc news. joining me in the studio is fraud and commercial litigation expert, nicola mckinney. what legal rights to people have if they have fallen victim to one of these scams?—

these scams? people have the ordinary rights _ these scams? people have the ordinary rights of— these scams? people have the ordinary rights of citizens - these scams? people have the| ordinary rights of citizens when they are victims of crime and that would include going to the police and pursuing a prosecution if there is enough evidence for that to happen. in addition, in a case like this what they will be looking at is going to the bank and in some cases they will be a right to cover funds from the bank and of the third option is going to be bringing a legal claim against the fraudsters. in a case like this, that is going to be very difficult because it's difficult in many cases to identify them. ~ . . ., ., difficult in many cases to identify them. ., , difficult in many cases to identify them. according to reports, part of this scam works _ them. according to reports, part of this scam works by _ them. according to reports, part of this scam works by tricking - them. according to reports, part of this scam works by tricking people | this scam works by tricking people into handing over their banking pass code. in that situation, does that limit how much protection they have because they have handed over the keys to their bank effectively. yes. it's likel keys to their bank effectively. yes. it's likely to _ keys to their bank effectively. yes. it's likely to make _ keys to their bank effectively. yes. it's likely to make it _ keys to their bank effectively. yes. it's likely to make it very _ it's likely to make it very difficult and what we will probably see is that the banks are going to me making an assessment of exactly

where the line is drawn between somebody who has been grossly negligent into handing over details they should have because they were enough warning signs and someone who is going to be considered a victim by the bank. now whether handing over passcodes as opposed to a password is going to fall on one side of that line or the other is something we will see over the next few days. something we will see over the next few da s. ., ., , .,, few days. you mentioned people takin: few days. you mentioned people taking legal— few days. you mentioned people taking legal action _ few days. you mentioned people taking legal action of _ few days. you mentioned people taking legal action of their - few days. you mentioned people taking legal action of their own. | few days. you mentioned people | taking legal action of their own. is this something people can do individually or would they have to be part of a class action? the first factor in something _ be part of a class action? the first factor in something like _ be part of a class action? the first factor in something like that - be part of a class action? the first factor in something like that is - factor in something like that is going to probably be a question of cost. if you have lost thousands of pounds, may £10,000 as is the case for some people, the cost of bringing legal action is going to be so primitive in comparison with what you have lost, you're probably going to find it's not really a practical recourse. if you've lost, the victim

who lost £3 million might find that it is for an individual case it's going to be too expensive for most people. what's unusual about this is that we do have uniquely a group of 70,000 people who identified and so if for example the banks take a line that looks like it might be open to challenge, if they say we are not going to recompense people, they might be scope for some kind of class action. he might be scope for some kind of class action-— class action. he mentioned the numbers. _ class action. he mentioned the numbers, 70,000, _ class action. he mentioned the numbers, 7o,ooo, that- class action. he mentioned the numbers, 70,000, that a - class action. he mentioned the numbers, 70,000, that a lot l class action. he mentioned the | numbers, 70,000, that a lot of people falling victim to this scam. presumably, that means the number of people who were actually contacted was even higher and goodness knows what percentage 70,000 represents of the total who the scammers tried to target. does it raise wider questions about messaging around scams and the way the authorities deal with these situations? from the bank plasma —

deal with these situations? from the bank plasma point _ deal with these situations? from the bank plasma point of _ deal with these situations? from the bank plasma point of view _ deal with these situations? from the bank plasma point of view they, - deal with these situations? from the bank plasma point of view they, if. bank plasma point of view they, if you go into your online app you will notice more and more messages directed to you as a consumer to try and stop you from making a transfer and stop you from making a transfer and alert you to the kind of information you will never be asked to hand over to a third party. but in terms of what we do about this and what the police do about this, it's fundamentally under resourced team that goes after fraudsters and the reality is, 70,000 is a drop in the reality is, 70,000 is a drop in the ocean. i act for fraud victims over time and it's a very damaging crime. in cases where there is information that is handed over, what people really need to know is clarity from the banks and the regulators, are they going to be able to recover or not? what is the information? the

able to recover or not? what is the information?— information? the sophistication of the scams information? the sophistication of the seams gets — information? the sophistication of the scams gets more _ information? the sophistication of the scams gets more impressive, | the scams gets more impressive, that's the wrong word, more devious day by day and year by year. not only was this one pretending to be a bank and warning people of suspicious activity on their account supposedly, i've seen messages doing the rounds were people pretend to be someone plasma child saying my phone is broken and i need you to send me some money. it becomes very difficult to then spot when someone is genuinely contacting you because of fraud on your account or whether a family member is in trouble. really savvy people fall victim to these kinds of crimes. when you are contacting your bank to try and make the case for yourself that you did everything reasonably that you could have done, it might be worthwhile noting down all the steps you took.

but the reality is, they are incredibly sophisticated and there is often an element of trust involved. there is a bit of tugging at the heartstrings, someone in need of someone you know is asking for assistance. it’s of someone you know is asking for assistance-— assistance. it's very difficult. the other when _ assistance. it's very difficult. the other when i _ assistance. it's very difficult. the other when i spotted _ assistance. it's very difficult. the other when i spotted was - assistance. it's very difficult. the other when i spotted was about | other when i spotted was about energy support, a text saying he might be eligible for energy support. they give people no chance at all to avoid it. we could go on at all to avoid it. we could go on at great length but i appreciate your time and thank you for coming in. the headlines on bbc news: a review has found that health professionals failed to share a list of significant injuries sustained by five—year—old logan mwangi nearly a year before he was murdered by members of his family. a wave of industrial action continues to spread across the uk. in scotland teachers are on strike for the first time in almost 40 years. more than half million more people entered the uk than left in the yeartojune,

the highest level on record. nearly a third of ambulances arriving at hospitals in england are having to wait more than 30 minutes for their patients to be handed over to doctors and nurses. a transfer should be carried out within 15 minutes. these figures come from official data released today by nhs england. our health reporterjim reed has been looking into the details. this is the first batch we have seen this year so it's interesting because it gives us some indication of the pressures the nhs is under going into the most difficult time of year. looking at the figures today they are worrying. in particular if we look at ambulances, delays to ambulances can often have direct patient harm but also its a kind of canary in the coal mine

situation where if you look at what's going on in ambulances it will tell you what pressure the rest of the health services under. 29% of ambulances that turn up at hospital then have to wait at least half an hour to unload their patients. the target for the nhs is an under 15 minutes. 13% of those abilities having to wait more than an hour. there are two obvious problems, when if you have a sick person in your balance rather than in the hospital they might not be getting the treatment they need in the second is if you have big queues of ambulances having to wait outside hospitals they are not able to quickly get out of the next person needs help. this is a real concern for the health service going into the winter. these figures are worse than a similar period last year so they give some indication of what might happen in the coming months. hagar indication of what might happen in the coming months.— indication of what might happen in the coming months. how much of a breakdown — the coming months. how much of a breakdown that _ the coming months. how much of a breakdown that we _ the coming months. how much of a breakdown that we get? _ the coming months. how much of a| breakdown that we get? availability area by area or hospital by hospital or is it an overview?—

or is it an overview? both. if you look at what's _ or is it an overview? both. if you look at what's going _ or is it an overview? both. if you look at what's going on - or is it an overview? both. if you look at what's going on across i look at what's going on across england, these are england figures, wales, scotland and northern ireland are facing some of the same pressures. in scotland for delays for abilities are not quite as bad. if you look across england there is a problem it seems in the south—west. we've had this for a while over the summer. in the midlands and east midlands in particular and in the east of the country. 29% of ambulances so almost one in three having to wait 30 minutes when they arrive at hospital to get their patients. if you look at some of the other hospitals, norwich and norfolk hospital in the east, that figure goes up from 29% to 73%. these are big figures. it's important to say we are currently in november so the beginning of that really tough winter period. really these pressures start to peek around january and february when you have things like flu. so really this is

an indication and a hint of some of the pressures that could be stored up the pressures that could be stored up over the next couple of months. the family would like to thank michael— the family would like to thank michael gove and his team for making the time _ michael gove and his team for making the time to— michael gove and his team for making the time to meet them in rochdale today~ _ the time to meet them in rochdale today the — the time to meet them in rochdale today. the meeting was productive and the _ today. the meeting was productive and the family are hopeful and closely— and the family are hopeful and closely watching to see that the meaningful changes promised come about _ meaningful changes promised come about. they were three asks the families— about. they were three asks the families entered this meeting with. we are _ families entered this meeting with. we are pleased the secretary of state _ we are pleased the secretary of state has — we are pleased the secretary of state has provided his backing to all three — state has provided his backing to all three of these asks. we will

share _ all three of these asks. we will share with you now. all of task related — share with you now. all of task related to _ share with you now. all of task related to legislation. the social housing — related to legislation. the social housing regulation bill is currently going _ housing regulation bill is currently going through parliament. we can confirm _ going through parliament. we can confirm that michael gove is providing a support to this. the family— providing a support to this. the family are — providing a support to this. the family are pushing for the limitation of a law to ensure that no other— limitation of a law to ensure that no other family go through what they have been— no other family go through what they have been through. the low would significantly improve the experiences of those living with mould — experiences of those living with mould and damp in their properties. it is therefore crucial. we are pleased — it is therefore crucial. we are pleased that the secretary of state has provided his support for that low _ has provided his support for that low the — has provided his support for that low. the family are acutely aware that during — low. the family are acutely aware that during the time of tragedy politicians often will make positive comments but change does not always follow _ comments but change does not always follow. therefore the family are pleased — follow. therefore the family are pleased that michael gove has agreed to provide _ pleased that michael gove has agreed to provide progress reports both of the family— to provide progress reports both of the family and to the nation of changes— the family and to the nation of changes being made. michael gove has

agreed _ changes being made. michael gove has agreed to— changes being made. michael gove has agreed to come back to rochdale and meet the _ agreed to come back to rochdale and meet the family in six months' time to personally update them on progress. in addition, he has agreed to provide _ progress. in addition, he has agreed to provide regular updates to the public— to provide regular updates to the public advising of the changes so that the — public advising of the changes so that the tragedy of this nature can never— that the tragedy of this nature can never happen again. he has agreed to do this— never happen again. he has agreed to do this on— never happen again. he has agreed to do this on a _ never happen again. he has agreed to do this on a monthly basis at minimum _ do this on a monthly basis at minimum. he also agrees that these updates— minimum. he also agrees that these updates must be in a format that is easily— updates must be in a format that is easily accessible and understandable to the _ easily accessible and understandable to the everyday member of the public — to the everyday member of the public. finally, the coroner produced _ public. finally, the coroner produced a comprehensive prevention death— produced a comprehensive prevention death report at the close of the inquest — death report at the close of the inquest. the secretary of state has confirmed — inquest. the secretary of state has confirmed to the family that he will deal with— confirmed to the family that he will deal with the matters raised in the report— deal with the matters raised in the report in— deal with the matters raised in the report in full. the family are encouraged by michael gove's remarks, _ encouraged by michael gove's remarks, howeverare encouraged by michael gove's remarks, however are keen for what took place _ remarks, however are keen for what took place in — remarks, however are keen for what took place in the meeting to be read out in _ took place in the meeting to be read out in public. this is in an effort to ensure — out in public. this is in an effort to ensure others living in social housing —

to ensure others living in social housing that also so that the public are able _ housing that also so that the public are able to — housing that also so that the public are able to hold the secretary of state _ are able to hold the secretary of state and — are able to hold the secretary of state and the government to account. the family— state and the government to account. the family would also like to take this moment to make their thoughts clear in— this moment to make their thoughts clear in relation to the leadership. the family— clear in relation to the leadership. the family of no confidence in the board _ the family of no confidence in the board. they call for the border's resignation and believe that while the current board remains there is an ever— the current board remains there is an ever present risk and danger to tenants _ an ever present risk and danger to tenants. the family are struggling to grapple with the fact that while grieving _ to grapple with the fact that while grieving the loss of their child they— grieving the loss of their child they are — grieving the loss of their child they are expressing confidence in they are expressing confidence in the ceo — they are expressing confidence in the ceo. they also cannot understand why it _ the ceo. they also cannot understand why it took _ the ceo. they also cannot understand why it took so long for them to in any way— why it took so long for them to in any way acknowledge it was wrong for them to— any way acknowledge it was wrong for them to have made assumptions about them to have made assumptions about the lifestyle of mr abdullah. particularly given the current findings _ particularly given the current findings. r h have immediate and urgent _ findings. r h have immediate and urgent issues that need to be addressed to ensure the safety of

their tenants. the family don't feel this boat— their tenants. the family don't feel this boat has the competence or credibility— this boat has the competence or credibility to do the job. this is a view— credibility to do the job. this is a view that— credibility to do the job. this is a view that has been expressed by many _ view that has been expressed by man . ., . . . view that has been expressed by man. . .. view that has been expressed by man. . “ , many. you are watching bbc news. before the weather, _ many. you are watching bbc news. before the weather, a _ many. you are watching bbc news. before the weather, a new - many. you are watching bbc news. before the weather, a new record l many. you are watching bbc news. l before the weather, a new record has been set by a pet in south—east london as the worlds oldest living cut. flossie who is 26—year5—old was confirmed as the oldest cat by guinness world records, which said she had a human equivalent age of 120 years old. the cut is death but is still affectionate and playful. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren. it's been raining cuts and dogs today. another heavy belt of rain sweeping across the country and a lot of cloud spilling away. things

look better for tomorrow. this lot of cloud spilling away. things look betterfor tomorrow. this is what we had, an area of low pressure running to the north—west bringing in a lot of cloud. shorter sharper bursts of rain earlier on. a few thunderstorms as well. that band of rain will push its way towards the east. following that we have a few thunderstorms just off the coast of wales. those heavier showers will follow across wales and into parts of the midlands and northern england and scotland. with those showers, gusty winds as well. things calm down at the end of the night. skies will clear and temperatures will dip to 5 degrees. overnight showers will move out to the north sea by morning but we will see more showers coming into the north—west mainly affecting scotland. the odd shower across western parts of the uk but otherwise it looks like it's going to be a dry day with some sunshine. not as windy as today. temperatures making double figures in the central

belt of scotland and it could make 14 in south wales. there is more cloud heading away for the start of the weekend. lower pressure out in the weekend. lower pressure out in the atlantic pushing ahead these weather fronts, the atlantic pushing ahead these weatherfronts, bringing with it the atlantic pushing ahead these weather fronts, bringing with it an outbreak of rain and that rain will be pushing its way very slowly eastwards and it should be dry across many eastern parts of england through saturday. some early sunshine that the cloud is coming in and redeveloping across wales and affecting northern ireland. together with the rain we have strong winds picking up again on saturday. we could see gales of around some southern areas but it pushing and mild air and blowing that milder air northwards into scotland. and it will be very mild on saturday night. temperatures won't drop much. it stays windy and we have more rain. that rain will push its way eastwards towards the south—east of eglin. we may have some rain to begin with and we will keep a lot of cloud in the south—east and it is possible that rain could hang around

into the afternoon. but away from here, we have some sunshine. showers out of the west and they could be heavy. it won't be as windy on sunday. publishers not changing very much from overnight so double figures. quite mild for the time of year. heading into next week, things start to change. higher pressure, it will be colder but we won't have as much rain as we had this month. it's been a very wet november, a record november in some parts of the country.

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