education secretary bridget phillipson has been setting out the plans for the bill., so today i am setting out a landmark children's bill to protect vulnerable children, to make sure those responsible for their care are working more effectively. schools, the police, children social workers, we all have a responsibility to protect children and keep them safe and today's measures will make a significant difference to the lives of children across the country and transform their life chances. i am afraid there will always, life chances. i am afraid there willalways, much life chances. i am afraid there will always, much as i would like this not to be the case, be violent, manipulative people who would seek to do terrible things to the children they are responsible for. it is never possible to stop at all but it is possible to do a lot more, which is what we are doing today. a strong 7.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the pacific island nation of vanuatu. early reports say several buildings were damaged in the capital, port vila. among them a structure housing the americ

the problem is even though bridget phillipson says early years education at her priority, there is a this nursery, for example, they will be paying £50,000 more in staff costs. the staff massively deserve that rise and they will all say that, particularly with 15 preschoolers today, but the concern is that the funding the government gave will not match that. it is very busy today, everyone is happy, but there is real concern about the future. ., , there is real concern about the future. . ., ~ there is real concern about the future. . ., ,, ., ~ there is real concern about the future. . ., ,, ., the minority labour government in wales is due to publish its spending plans for next year. the budget, which is set to include funding aimed at bringing down nhs waiting lists, will need support from at least one opposition member in the welsh senate to pass. our wales correspondent, hywel griffith, joins us now. hywel, what else can we expect from this budget? we will hear about their spending plans on education, transport and housing. all departments, we are told, according to the numbers

so bridget phillipson very objective on this policy. and she says people love it.lass parents have largely been priced out of private schools, and that's why there's such support for our policy. >> so she thinks we're providing any evidence for that particular theory. >> this is biased as nigel farage being pro nigel farage. how dare they? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> i'm going to get in trouble. do you want to do the assad story? because there's also dump files show families spiralling each other in assad's surveillance state, and people are even, you know, there's all sorts of families were spying on each other, including children. people were going to prison. it sounds like starmer's uk is just horrific. so sorry. i had to say that you've had a fun christmas then. >> yeah, that's what i'm taking from that story. and anything a bit lighter. >> if we had daily star, daily star, rise of the killer robot fridges and this is just a classic ai coming in to, you know, make our food cold when we want it. >> not that classic, is it? becaus

bridget phillipson said all state school teachers should be permitted to work away from the classroom when marking lesson planning and performing pupil assessments. it comes after a survey published last month showed 47% of participants were considering leaving the sector because of a lack of flexible working opportunities. mr phillipson said children's life chances suffer without world class teachers in the classroom. that's why this government will offer more flexibility without reducing the teaching time with pupils. a 77 year old just stop oil activists has returned to jail after problems with an electronic tag to monitor her. gaia delap was sentenced to 20 months in prison for being part of a group that blocked the m25 in november 2022. the grandmother, from bristol was released early on a home detention curfew, but it was not possible to attach the electronic tag to her ankle due to a health condition, so she's been recalled to prison. and princess beatrice will be joining the royal family at sandringham this christmas after changing her travel plans due to medical advice. beatr

bridget phillipson bridget phillipson made it from being the kid of a single mum in a council estate. >> okay, let's boil it down. let's boil this down. >> let's boil this down. after she went to oxford, instead of taking a highly paid job that she could have easily got where she could have easily got where she earned a second. instead of doing that, she was she went and ran a second class. >> honours. >> honours. >> top economists. just pointless if you speak over me. a man. she went and ran a women's refuge for three years, which her mum set up. yes, exactly. >> so she got a job with her mum. >> mum had her mum gave her a job. my mum had almost no money and used her life to do a charity, which she worked in a women's refuge. now you know what? what's that got to do with education? you're only too happy to talk about women's refuges, but when it's a labour mp that gave their life to it, you don't want to talk about it. but they didn't. >> she didn't give her life. she was born in 1983. >> all right. okay, fine. >> all right. okay, fine. >> this is absolute nonsense. look, we are com

and now bridget phillipson is claiming that middle class parents support her policy. no they don't. gaslighting. but i think there's something really sinister going on here. labour are forcing tens of thousands more children into the state sector. they are forcing them to learn the state curriculum, and they're about to wokeist dai that state curriculum. bridget phillipson is going to decolonise the curriculum to make sure it reflects the diversity of british society. you can see it now, can't you? monday's lessons brought to you by black lives matter tuesday. the muslim council of britain comes in wednesday. india willoughby's class about girls welcoming blokes into their toilets. thursday. that's palestine day, i'm afraid. on fridays, greta thunberg and chris packham have teamed up for a course in how you can wear bright orange and glue yourself to the m4 during rush hour. it's clear that labour have been listening to this guy. >> let's do it for palestine, ramallah, west bank, gaza. it's about time we globalise the intifada. >> that is daniel kebede, who is the head of the nation

bridget phillipson said all state school teachers should be permitted to work away from the classroomwhen marking lesson planning and performing pupil assessments. that's according to reports in the observer. it comes after figures published last month from a working lives of teachers and leaders survey, showed 47% of participants were considering leaving the sector because of a, quote, lack of flexible working opportunities. mr phillipson told the observer children's lives and children's life chances suffer without world class teachers in our classrooms. that's why this government will offer more flexibility without reducing the teaching time with pupils. in other news, a man has been charged with murdering a teacher who was found dead in south london on thursday morning. police were called on thursday morning to reports of a woman found with injuries at an address at nutfield close in carshalton. gemma devenish, who worked as the head of year at rosebery school in epsom, died at the scene. a 38 year old man, who was known to her was arrested and charged with her murder. james madden

ahead of a new policy coming into effect, bridget phillipson has defended the plan to end exemptions,laiming it will raise £1.8 billion each year to, she says, fund state schools and recruit more teachers. critics, though, including the conservatives, say it's a vindictive policy that will only hurt children's education. the government insists the policy is supported by middle class parents, who are struggling with private school fees, and believe that better funding for state schools will improve life chances for everyone. and the uk has pledged millions more to help investigate russian war crimes investigate russian war crimes in ukraine. the government has announced an additional £4.5 million to support bodies like the ukrainian prosecutor general's office, in holding war criminals to account. it follows an earlier pledge of more than £6 million for war crime prosecutions. it comes as the united nations has already confirmed war crimes have been taking place during the conflict, citing evidence of executions and of torture. those are the latest headlines for now. plenty more still

could bite the bullet angela rayner, ed miliband, wes streeting yvette cooper, lisa nandy, bridget phillipson and jonathan reynolds and pat mcfadden this is the top brass. this is the elite of the labour party shows that politics is so volatile, literally nobody seems safe. >> yeah, and that's absolutely right. and i mean, there's four and a half years to go until the next general election. president trump is likely to become president and finish being president and finish being president before we have a general election again in the uk. so there is a bit of time, but the current picture is not suggesting any safe seats for many members of the cabinet. and actually the more interesting story from all of this, the bigger story here is the fragmentation of british politics, but also the marginality . 271 of these seats marginality. 271 of these seats are predicted to be won on with the, with the winning candidate winning less than a third of the vote. and now that's not normal. in a first past the post system, it's more likely to be seen on the continent with their pr systems, but with first p

bridget phillipson has defended the plan to end exemptions, claiming it will raise £1.8 billion eachar to, she says, fund state schools and recruit more teachers. critics, though, including the conservatives, say it's a vindictive policy that will only hurt children's education. the government insists the policy is supported by middle class parents, who are struggling with private school fees, and believe that better funding for state schools will improve life chances for everyone. and the uk has pledged millions more to help investigate russian war crimes investigate russian war crimes in ukraine. the government has announced an additional £4.5 million to support bodies like the ukrainian prosecutor general's office, in holding war criminals to account. it follows an earlier pledge of more than £6 million for war crime prosecutions. it comes as the united nations has already confirmed war crimes have been taking place during the conflict, citing evidence of executions and of torture. those are the latest headlines for now. plenty more still to come. i'll be back with you in an hour

however, education secretary bridget phillipson says too many children have been failed by the state,ling the proposals a seminal moment for child protection. >> the measures that i'm setting out today are about how we protect children and keep them safe, that we've got much clearer visibility of where children are and where where parents make a request to home, educate their children, where they take them out of school, that if we have safeguarding concerns or a child protection investigation is underway, we'll make sure that local councils are able to deny that request that parents have if they're concerned about the wellbeing of children. there's a range of other measures in the bill that we're setting out today about how we all need to work together to share information, whether that's police , health education, that's police, health education, to really work, to protect children and to keep them safe. it's a landmark piece of legislation. >> now, it's being reported that the new prime minister of mauritius says the chagos islands deal struck by sir keir starmer isn't good enough,

education secretary bridget phillipson claims surged from £1,052 to 1896.cabinet ministers claimed more than £12,600 for their gas and electric bills in the first three quarters of last year alone . give us our money back, alone. give us our money back, give us our money back. in fact, labour's liam byrne reportedly has the highest total of any single mp, with 17 grand's worth of claims in the last six years. he voted to cut the winter fuel payment and said that we had to do it to fill the black hole. rubbish. what black hole? there's no black hole when it comes to illegal immigrants, is there? labour loves paying for them. 20,000 have arrived since starmer became prime minister. we've got more migrant hotels popping up we've got more migrant hotels popping up everywhere. >> 100 guys from a country which we know do not value women. yeah, i'm sorry, but that's the hard. >> no, no. i'm sorry. >> is there going to be a curfew or are they just at 7:00 at night? just going to be able to wander around because my daughter is going to be safe when she goes into alt

we will speak to bridget phillipson, the education secretary in an hour and a half.s riaht, interesting how the story. that's right. jon- _ nhs england says the trial of a new service — which gives patients easier access to a second medical opinion — led to one in eight people receiving potentially life—saving treatment. under martha's rule, patients can request an urgent review, if they believe their condition is deteriorating. our health correspondent sophie hutchinson reports. it's more than three years since 13—year—old martha mills died of sepsis at king's college hospital in london, where doctors failed to take emergency action to save her life, despite her parents�* concerns. since then, some hospitals have trialled an idea championed by her parents, known as martha's rule, an emergency phone line for worried families. and it's showing positive signs. it's clear to me that if we implement martha's rule nationally, we can confidently say that it would greatly improve care, change the culture and save lives. so how does martha's rule work? it provides a phone li