all my friends are mostly still in knowsley.k about the good bits in a second, but first of all, the bad. why was it nicknamed st disgusting? 0h, they werejust jealous, i'm sure. no, i don't know. was it really poor? there were some ten comprehensive schools in knowsley. they were all failing. they were all inadequate. they weren't rated then, but they would have all been inadequate. 92% of the kids left without the four or five 0 levels, as they were when i was there, to get on to the next stage of education, 92% — so that left 8% who did. now, i was one of the 8% which... you got ten o—levels. i did, which was a bit of a miracle. it wasn't really down to me so much as more down to a teacher, and that's why i love education. everyone who goes into teaching, they want to change somebody�*s life. hopefully a lot of kids�* lives. but mr ashcroft, who was my teacher, he changed many lives at st augustine's, and he basically stayed behind after school till 5:30pm every day to enable me to study technical drawing, engineering and tha

vanessa clarke, bbc news, knowsley.his? we've been raising our concerns to _ are you by this? we've been raising our concerns to government - are you by this? we've been raising our concerns to government for i are you by this? we've been raising l our concerns to government for some time now as we've been undertaking surveys of our members, who have been telling us about the increase in referrals of children, and it is unprecedented, i think, in referrals of children, and it is unprecedented, ithink, and certainly it has been borne out by government data that shows children at two and a half years of age are not meeting the expected standard of communication through health visits and screening assessments. we have been raising concerns both about the number of children who are being referred as well as the severity of the communication needs they have. along with that, we have those children who could not access speech language therapy during the lockdown is so some of their needs have got worse. ., ., , , , worse. the

gillian keegan's old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called st augustine's, was nicknamed st disgusting

for this group of children at northwood community primary in knowsley, this is an important catch—upad a serious impact on children's' speech. children being at home and not being exposed to good language role models and not being able to interact in school, you know, and have those conversations and that reciprocal flow, i think that's had a massive effect. for seven—year—olds lewis, online learning and a lack of socialising with friends ended in frustration. have a good day, babes. you couldn't hold a full conversation with lewis. he'd point for a cup because he was too nervous to tell me what he wanted in case i didn't understand. there has been a 10% increase in children needing help with language skills, particularly for five and six—year—olds. for lewis, help by trained staff has made a huge difference. i can hold a conversation with lewis now. the school and the hope, i could never ever repay them for what they've done for lewis. he's such better boy. this issue does notjust affect children who are directly impacted by the pandemic, but those coming after. there are significan

for this group of children at northwood community primary in knowsley, this is an important catch—upldren's�* speech. children being at home and not being exposed to good language role models and not being able to interact in school, you know, and have those conversations and that reciprocal flow, i think that's had a massive effect. for seven—year—olds lewis, online learning and a lack of socialising with friends ended in frustration. have a good day, babes. you couldn't hold a full conversation with lewis. he'd point for a cup because he was too nervous to tell me what he wanted in case i didn't understand. there has been a 10% increase in children needing help with language skills, particularly for five and six—year—olds. for lewis, help by trained staff has made a huge difference. i can hold a conversation with lewis now. the school and the hope, i could never ever repay them for what they've done for lewis. he's such better boy. he's such a better boy. this issue does notjust affect children who are directly impacted by the pandemic, but those coming after. there are significant

vanessa clarke, bbc news, knowsley. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.es today, after a three and a half month break. members of the panel have used the time to study more than 300,000 documents and submissions on behalf of the 72 people who died in the fire in north kensington five years ago. survivors are calling forjustice and for lessons to be learned. a former drug addict who spent months living on the underground says he turned his life around with the help of art. ed worley, who also goes by the name opake, spent his teens and early 20s battling substance abuse and ended up sleeping rough. he eventually channelled his energy into painting and is now showing his work at an exhibition. within my work i repeat the same action, i repeat the same image over and over again, and i achieve a different outcome, which therefore, for me, breaks that cycle of insanity that i lived in. and that is what everything, all of my work, is based around. you can see him talking openly about substance abuse on our website. a look at the travel situation now. and althou

you are talking about sefton, barnsley, knowsley, the new stratford north theatre, a lovely theatre inn that respect, it is good we will have an intensive exchange on all issues and we want to and we can discuss, in regard to our bilateral relations, the possibilities to further intensify economic cooperation as well, of course, the issues where we pursue different perspectives. a commission on young lives report is warning that young people in england are being let down by social care, education and mental health systems, putting them in danger of grooming, exploitation and violence. earlier, we spoke to anne longfield, chair of the commission on young lives, and former children's commissioner for england. she said there should be an army of youth practitioners who can look out for children who are struggling. we've talked to young people and their families and their communities, theirfamilies and their communities, and there are a lot of young people, possibly as many as 200,000, it is estimated, who find themselves very marginalised from themselves very marginalised from the communi