they wa nt to tuc, to mentionjust a few.need to play, they're part of the easing of the lockdown, and eventually the ending, dare we say it, of the lockdown. in this letter, they won the prime minister, borisjohnson, this letter, they won the prime minister, boris johnson, that this letter, they won the prime minister, borisjohnson, that they will not recommend a return to work for their 3 million members. —— they warn the prime minister. until the government and employers agree a nationwide health and safety revolution, no less, as a result of this pandemic. 0ne revolution, no less, as a result of this pandemic. one can understand and see why they would be very, very concerned for a premature return. so, they need to sit down and hammer a nationwide agreement. interestingly, if i just a nationwide agreement. interestingly, if ijust compare my other country, france, the lockdown is due to start on monday. i don't know if that is the way the british government eventually will choose to go down, but there are red zones where t

frances o'grady from the tuc.ds will be here at 10pm with all the reaction to the plan is to's speech. now on bbc news, in india a child goes missing every eight minutes. the children are often trafficked into domestic labour or the sex trade — many are never seen again. a warning, this programme does include details some viewers may find upsetting. this is what it feels like when your child disappears. in india, a nationwide trade is separating children from theirfamilies. every eight minutes, a child goes missing in this country, and they are often trafficked. thousands of children, robbed of their innocence. we uncover a complex child trafficking network in india, and ask, "how can this be happening?" midday in a suburb of north—west delhi. and we are on a raid. searching forjust some of the 10 million children in forced labour in india. we have had a tip—off that dozens of kids are working in bakeries here. we have been told that some children already escaped from one of the premises, but we have got a lead fo

i spoke to the tuc a short time ago, the leader criticised the back to work provision without publicill have to address? that will be a problem and lots of places, like bigger cities. what the government are doing is they've been speaking to businesses about making the workplace is safer, to make sure social distancing can happen, and i think we will get more detail about public transport. we have heard from the transport secretary previously about having a lot less capacity if people have to social distance. we heard today about face coverings, that they might well have to be worn on public transport. so i think these kinds of details will come tomorrow, but there's a lot of anxiety for people. they are being encouraged to go back to work if they can't work from home. they want to make sure it is safe to do so, andi to make sure it is safe to do so, and i think this is why the government has dropped that stay on message, because it will not apply in the same way that it did before. they are saying that some people will be leaving to go to work, others will be leaving more often for

well, the tuc unions wa nted transport?he prime minister's statement tonight is a recipe for confusion and possibly chaos. with just 12 hours recipe for confusion and possibly chaos. withjust 12 hours notice, people are being encouraged to go back to work, but without any a nswe rs back to work, but without any answers on what happens on public transport, what happens if you have got children, what happens if you are supposed to be shielded. or vulnerable and some other way. and of course we haven't even had any guidance published or properly consulted on, so we have been saying there have to be tough new rules on safety a nd there have to be tough new rules on safety and on enforcement as well because the health and safety executive and local authority's budgets have been cut to shreds. we have fewer inspectors, fewer inspections and fewer prosecutions. how can working people be confident? never mind the transport issue, how can working people be confident that they can work safely until they at least see what the governme

that isjust one of the problem is the tuc has raised, the challenge of coming out of lockdown.ts, going to work if you can if you can't work from home, that is as deliberately vague as, stay at home to work. which we had before this evening. i don't feel anything has changed. today, robertjenrick i don't feel anything has changed. today, robert jenrick said there i don't feel anything has changed. today, robertjenrick said there is room for nuance, and yes and no. because people have to either take response ability for their own health or get instructions and boris johnson seems to be wanting to walk this middle ground, which he did before lockdown, saying please don't go intoa before lockdown, saying please don't go into a pub, but we are not going to shut them. i feel like he is doing this again, trying to hand responsibility over to everybody, which is coming up it is going to give us the right to use that, but again it is this middle ground between eastern and western cultures and he hasn't quite worked it out himself yet. let's move to the daily telegraph and the long road

it is not very much promoted by the tuc who have made it clear that they do not want their members. —e health situation that the pandemic present so they want measures put in place to ensure that the people are as safe to go back to work and at the right time. the question is whether they will offer their support to whatever plan the government puts forward. because if they do, that will be a big boost for the government and public opinion terms and if they do not come it is a stick which opponents of the government from all sides can beat them with. jobs worth is now a word. the receipt paper is contributing to the growing english. that should be bc papers. a lovely to see both. it is a treat to be back here with you. thank you both very much forjoining us. that is it for the papers this hour. coming up next, the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new movies available for viewing in the home.

so, i think that tuc has made quite an important demand in that trade union federation body has beengovernment to compel every uk employer to put in place some really stringent measures and have a risk assessment specifically for coronavirus before they open up again, and i think that's quite important. let's look at one of the big stories which matt hancock was talking about at length in his news conference. the tests we know he said that the target of 100,000 tests a day. he announced that 122,000 tests had been achieved. now, there is now a debate about what does he mean by that? it includes of course 40,000 tests, which were sent to homes and satellite sites, that's the main story in the telegraph. john stevens, a very simple question, did he hit 100,000? well, their whole purpose of having the target was looking back a month ago, the uk was training the world when it came to testing. we are actually doing fewer and fewer tests rather than building the number. so, the whole point of having this big bold target was to massively have this step change to the number of tests being do

so we have had these draft proposals, or an idea of these guidelines, but already the tuc, and we wesafety of employees as more people potentially go back to work, but also politically, there is concern among some conservative backbenchers that there is a gap between what people are being asked to do and guidelines, and also the legal requirements that businesses will need to conform to, and there will need to conform to, and there will be political pressure too from labour and others on the run up, especially when the plans for moving beyond the lockdown as we have come to get used to it over the last few weeks will be announced. and when that comes, we will get an idea of what the government is planning to do, and potentially the sequencing in which we might see restrictions eased or lifted, and new methods put in place, but not necessarily a strict timetable. and we thought we might get that announcement on thursday, but it is now sunday, and is that because the government want more time to study the latest statistics and data ? more time to study the latest statistics and data? t

and in terms of what it means for people going back to work, it is significant tonight that the tuc,roup, have said they now think the plans are a step in the right direction. that said, we are into a more complicated phase. as the lockdown is gradually unravelled, that will mean it is harderfor unravelled, that will mean it is harder for the government to give precision about every single tiny thing and they do reckon that that will rely on more of us using our own personaljudgments will rely on more of us using our own personal judgments about will rely on more of us using our own personaljudgments about how we live our lives, based on broad principles and new rules and regulations that will evolve over time rather than that one big blanket message of stay at home that people followed to such a great extent. the other thing that is certainly true is that political consensus that had broadly held in the first few months of this crisis is certainly fractured now, particularly with sharp differences between the four governments of the uk, tensions between westminster and edinburgh, be

we've been seeing plenty from the tuc on that.epidemic. they reported that wuhan, there's been another spike, small spike of cases. we we re another spike, small spike of cases. we were following when china was opening up more and yet there's been another cluster of cases in milan, a relatively small one —— wuhan. 17 new infections reported in china yesterday, if we can rely on figures coming out of china. i think the important thing about it is that they bought to a point and they are well ahead of us in terms of infections and dealing with it and coming out of it, but they are also well ahead of us in terms of tracing and tracking the virus and chasing those people it may have been passed on to —— tracing those people. one of the good things about the news coming out of both china and south korea, where there's also been a spike, both cases, they have a pretty fair idea where that come from and although there are challenges, they have measures in place to try and contact those who may have been infected. lance price, thank you f

i understand that entirely and that is why i think the tuc have particularly singled out those companieshey wouldn't be expected to apply with such rigour, these particular regulations. but what it does lay bare is the absence of any health and safety team were as the name. we had a loss of —— health and safety regime. we had a lot of new mobile health and safety inspectors are now down to 950. a business could expect to be inspected in the course of 50 years perhaps once. that is not good enough, particularly when we consider the ctc and health inspecting facilities and ofsted with schools. why not have a better regime of health and safety for the workers? but if bare minimum now must be a risk assessment and for those businesses that would struggle with that, they should be given assistance. it doesn't have to be a nurse. but there are 100,000 trade union health and safety reps who are skilled in this discipline and there could be a great assistance to those employers where they have union recognition, and indeed, for those in the supply chain where there is none. they could be a great

the big four unions, unison, unite, the gmb, usdaw with the tuc are saying many of their members have seen bus drivers in london and they are saying they want health and safety revolution as a result this pandemic. yes, they make the point in this letter that health and safety is something that has been derided by right—wingers over the years, but we are all realising it is vitally important and it is literally a life and death matter. there was an interesting report in the guardian yesterday, saying some authorities may be liable for criminal proceedings for putting their workers on the front line with insufficient protection. that is a scandal. scandal is an overused word by journalist, but that scandal. scandal is an overused word byjournalist, but that is a scandal. when the inevitable public enquiry comes, that will be high on the agenda. why haven't we given these people, who are doing everything on our behalf, adequate protection. it is a disgrace and i have the people who have been in charge of that are made to be called to account for that. whenever this full return to work d

the tuc is calling on ministers to work closely with unions to agree a way forward.ancock has said pupils will only be allowed to return to school when it is safe to do so. an aide who works closely with us vice president mike pence has tested positive for the coronavirus. katie miller, who is pence's press secretary, is the second white house worker to test positive for the virus this week. president trump and mr pence are being checked daily and have so far tested negative. the queen urged us to "never give up, never despair," as she spoke to the nation 75 years since herfather made his address to mark the end of the second world war in europe. street parties and flypast events were held throughout the day yesterday to commemorate the ve day anniversary, as holly hamilton reports. newsreel: his majesty, king george vi. 75 years on from her father's ve day address, the queen marked a defining moment of british history in the midst of another. today it may seem hard but we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. instead, we rememberfrom our homes and o

i'll speak to the union body the tuc.her passengers. the english housing market is being restarted —

i'll speak to the union body the tuc. people who are travelling to work are urged to avoid public transport. those who need to use it should wear face coverings and keep their distance from other passengers. the english housing market is being restarted — buyers and renters can visit estate agents and view properties. golf clubs in england are reopening today, demand for tee time has been through the roof as players are desperate to get back on the course. good morning! sunny spells for most of today but still some wintry showers in the far north—east. i'll be here all morning with a look on how the next few days are shaping up. it's wednesday the 13th of may. our top story. builders and factory workers in england are among those being encouraged to return to work from today, as the government starts to ease lockdown restrictions. the prime minister is also allowing those of us in england to spend unlimited time in parks and public spaces, and to do some outdoor sport. in wales, scotland and northern ireland, the message

the tuc has called the move a step in the right direction.o metres apart. one partial solution is face coverings, though again borisjohnson said wearing them was advisory, not mandatory. and if people can't return to work, well, the chancellor, rishi sunak, will give more details about the furlough scheme later today which is paying the wages of millions of employees. but labour's leader says the government's messaging has sowed confusion. what the country needs at this time is clarity and reassurance and at the moment, both are in pretty short supply. and looming over all of this is the increasing death toll. in the last 2a hours, 210 people have died in the uk across all settings. there have now been a total of 32,065 deaths. the new strategy has laid out other details aimed at winning back a degree of normality to life in england. one idea is for a household bubble where two households can interact with each other but not with others. another is for primary school children to be back at their desks for a month before summer in class sizes

he talked there about working with the unions, there about working with the unions, the tuc yesterdaying to be an ongoing issue as people return to the workplace, and we have already heard from some of the teaching unions are very concerned about schools in what will happen there if by the 1st ofjune some of the people start to go back. there are all sorts of things companies can do to do with social distancing and extra cleaning, even putting up barriers so that if people have to sit close to each other, there is some kind of protection. but it will mean people working together, and that is what alok sharma has said, that they will bea alok sharma has said, that they will be a consensus, and they have managed to come together and try to work through some of these issues, but it is going to be a problem, and people getting to work will be an issue as well, and there is more guidance on all of that, but that is the main emphasis for ministers at this point, really preparing people and preparing workplaces for small steps, as he said, to opening up the workplace. just as we mention the

the only thing they didn't quite understand is the state tuc over site over tncs and the fact that the state restricts what the cities and counties can do to regulate tncs. i think based upon the proposals that the board of supervisors should request that they ask for legislation to allow san francisco to do registration like new york does. that would be a great opportunity to do that. regarding food delivery, i think that the environmental health division of the health department would be the best place to regulate food delivery workers. like they do restaurants. they regulate restaurants and in restaurants. considering food safety training through the health department would be the place to do that. the tnc with the m.t.a. they would need the same requirements taxi drivers go through, fingerprint, background checks and drug testing to be regulated by the m.t.a. thank you. >> thank you very much, caller. >> that completes the queue. >> public item on 5 is closed. we are now on item 6. our executive director has a presentation. >> thank you, madam chair. almost good afternoon, commissi

about key workers, but it is interesting that the government, the office for national statistics, the tuct key workers, but key products. we have seen this obviously with ppe. we are not producing the number of ppe that we need in this country when we have a crisis. the government needs to think about what products are key products that we need to make sure are there for this kind of crisis and ensure that the manufacturing of some of these products. there is potential, if the government gets ahead of the curve and think strategically, to start shoring up vacancies where they currently exist, but also perhaps to start creating new jobs currently exist, but also perhaps to start creating newjobs in the future in the medium term. thank you. thank you. many families across the uk have been struggling with the financial strains that have come with the coronavirus pandemic including kamila ferry and her husband michael, who both lost theirjobs in hospitality when the lockdown began. neither of them qualified for the government's furlough scheme, leaving them without an income. they've been spe

workers going into their offices, into construction sites around the country, the union body at the tucith the vast majority of employees and consumers. i share the tuc‘s concerns around the guidelines. it was only ten or 12 hours of consultation on those guidelines and yet they are critically important. if we compare the guidelines being put forward in the guidelines being put forward in the uk to those being used in other countries, there is far more ambiguity in the uk guidelines and i think whether you are a worker or an employee, looking at these guidelines, in the vast majority of cases you will want to be doing the right thing. we need to make sure that bad employers do not do the wrong thing. we need to make sure there is enforcement. the uk scheme doesn't have enough in it to ensure that. this is criticalfor economic health because if people do not have confidence in their safety going back to work and in their safety using different businesses as consumers, we will have a much longer recession than we need to have and it is not clear to me yet that government has fully underst

kevin rowan is head of health and safety at the tuc. thank you forjoining us.lly concerned that by returning to work, whilst in the workplace and on the way to work there will be exposed to increased risk of catching the virus and that should be a concern, not just for them but everybody across the economy. we have been asking for the economy. we have been asking for the government to push clear guidelines on what employers need to do. we understand they will be published tomorrow, but we haven‘t seen the draft. both businesses and people who work in those businesses wa nt to people who work in those businesses want to be clear about what measures are in place to make sure that they can be safe going back to work. as you say, there‘s guidelines will be given to employers tomorrow. in the meantime though, how much has been done to make workplaces a safe environment to prepare for the inevitable moment when people go back with social distancing having to be in place? lots of businesses have carried on throughout the lockdown, carried on working and there is some

the tuc general secretary, frances o‘grady, called for more guidance on how people are going to be keptthe past monday mornings over the past seven weeks or so. although i have not seen the helicopter shots. more now on our main story, and borisjohnson has laid out the "first careful steps" of easing the lockdown in england, as part of a three—phase plan to get back to normal life. so, how did the proposed changes go down with the public? breakfast‘s graham satchell has been getting some reaction. it is now almost two months since the people of this country began to put up with restrictions on theirfreedoms... in sitting rooms across the united kingdom, people gathered last night in their millions to watch the prime minister. and you have shown the good sense to support those rules overwhelmingly. ok, right, everyone know what they're doing? charlotte has been locked down with her three children and her parents, both in their 70s. i thought boris's speech was a little vague. for me as a mum and the owner of a nursery, it sort of like quite a lot of clarity. i suppose i was a little disa

the only thing they didn't quite understand is the state tuc over site over tncs and the fact that the state restricts what the cities and counties can do to regulate tncs. i think based upon the proposals that the board of supervisors should request that they ask for legislation to allow san francisco to do registration like new york does. that would be a great opportunity to do that. regarding food delivery, i think that the environmental health division of the health department would be the best place to regulate food delivery workers. like they do restaurants. they regulate restaurants and in restaurants. considering food safety training through the health department would be the place to do that. the tnc with the m.t.a. they would need the same requirements taxi drivers go through, fingerprint, background checks and drug testing to be regulated by the m.t.a. thank you. >> thank you very much, caller. >> that completes the queue. >> public item on 5 is closed. we are now on item 6. our executive director has a presentation. >> thank you, madam chair. almost good afternoon, commissi