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Don't forget a first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Now, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
Good evening from BBC London News. I'm Riz Lateef. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
A group of London Academies is trying to | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
recover ?4 million from a former employee, after vast sums of money | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Samuel Kayodee was an accountant at Haberdashers' Aske's Federation, | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
which runs three schools in south`east London. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
A High Court judgement detailed how millions was diverted to | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Our education reporter, Marc Ashdown, has the story. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Back in 2007 it was the most oversubscribed state school in the | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
country, as the then head showed us around the academy, one of its | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
country, as the then head showed us around the academy, one of hts staff | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
members was parentally removing millions of pounds from under her | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
nose. Samuel Kayodee was born in Nigeria. The Trust runs three | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
schools in south`east London. It was discovered over a six`year period 4. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
?4.1 million was paid into his own accounts. The Trust suspended and | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
accounts. The Trust suspenddd and sacked him and wept to the High | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Court to try to recover the money. A summary judgment was granted to the | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
trust in respect of the claim he summary judgment was granted to the | :01:25. | :01:25. | |
trust in respect of the clahm he had trust in respect of the claim he had | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
abused his position of trust. It detailed 148 transactions m`de to | :01:29. | :01:29. | |
detailed 148 transactions made to his account over the six ye`rs. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
detailed 148 transactions m`de to his account over the six years. He | :01:32. | :01:31. | |
his account over the six ye`rs. He and his late wife bought property, | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
cars, luxury items and had apparently been living well beyond | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
their means. The judge said based on the evidence he'd seen, there's no | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
way they couldn't have known such a vast amount of money was flowing in. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
It's left parents concerned about how the schools are run and knock`on | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
effects it might have. It's a huge amount of money. Our schools aren't | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
particularly complex, our fhnancial particularly complex, our fhnancial | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
institutions. It's a huge concern for parents. They're worried that | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
their children's education will suffer. The academy Trust was | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
frequently championed by thd former frequently championed by the former | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Education Secretary. Academhes do have more control over their | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
finances than other state schools. Critics say this is a glaring | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
example of the need for stricter example of the need for strhcter | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
financial controls.. They c`n siphon away funds easily without anyone | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
really knowing anything for a long time. The only people supervising | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
them are the Department for Education. The Department for | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Education have thousands of schools to monitor. The department | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
maintained academies alreadx have maintained academies already have | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
tougher financial rules to follow. In court, Samuel Kayodee tried to | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
argue all his transactions had been authorised. The judge said his | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
explanation had a total air of unreality about it. We've not been | :02:51. | :02:51. | |
able to locate him for a comment. able to locate him for a colment. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
The Trust say they're devastated and believe this constituted a | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
sophisticated fraud. They're believe this constituted a | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
sophisticated fraud. They'rd working sophisticated fraud. They'rd working | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
as hard as they can to recover the money. It is, after all, ?4 million | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
of public money, which should have been spent on pupils. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
From September, eight new rdgional From September, eight new regional | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
schools commissioners begin their role scrutinising academies, three | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
of them here in London. I'm told they'll be more hands on, m`king | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
they'll be more hands on, making more advise tights schools, going | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
through the finances. Many will say this case shows how badly they're | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
needed. A cyclist, involved | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
in a collision with a rubbish truck The 40`year`old was taken to | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
hospital suffering It's the eighth cyclist death | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
on the capital's roads this year. Soaring rents coupled with | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
the difficulty of getting onto the property ladder has led to calls | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
for changes in the way London's In the second of our series this | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
week 'Home Truths', looking at more radical solutions to the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
capital's housing crisis, P`tricia Brown, Chair of the London Festival | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
of Architecture, explains why she thinks people should be able to rent | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
better properties, for longdr. People often look to continental | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
European cities and say why can t we European cities and say why can t we | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
be more like continental Europe, where people say in Germany or in | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Paris live in rented accommodation for their entire lives. There's no | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
stigma attached to it in thd for their entire lives. There's no | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
stigma attached to it in the same stigma attached to it in the same | :04:19. | :04:18. | |
way as there is here. At thd stigma attached to it in thd same | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
way as there is here. At thd moment, I live in Leytonstone, to share with | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
seven people. It's really slall to seven people. It's really small to | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
live there. It's really dirty. I don't trust the landlord. It's too | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
expensive. Why is it so different here? That's because many of the | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
landlords that are around, providing the significant proportion of | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
private rental sector in thd UK and private rental sector in thd UK and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
especially in London, are actually in it for the short`term. There s | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
especially in London, are actually in it for the short`term. There's no | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
security of tenure or reasons for people to feel vested in thdir | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
security of tenure or reasons for people to feel vested in their home | :04:58. | :04:58. | |
or their district. Here I al people to feel vested in thdir home | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
or their district. Here I am in people to feel vested in their home | :05:02. | :05:01. | |
or their district. Here I am in the eastville nadge Stratford, where | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
they're trying to radically change the housing market. This is a good | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
sized room. Due say you havd your sized room. Due say you have your | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
own bathroom? Yeah, just around the corner. Initially I was on the hunt | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
for a new job. I was recommended for a new job. I was recommended | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
about this company. So I signed up and got the job. At such a time I | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
was going to be moved over here in the Village. I thought it was | :05:24. | :05:24. | |
was going to be moved over here in the Village. I thought it w`s a | :05:25. | :05:24. | |
the Village. I thought it was a really good place to be. We signed | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
up for a three`year contract. We had a clause that we can use after the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
six`month term. There is total security from a tenants' pohnt of | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
view. There isn't one single view. There isn't one singld | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
solution when it comes to London's housing market. There's lots of | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
different ways that we need to take on to fix the problem. One of them | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
is regulating the market and providing a better class of private | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
rented landlord. The mayor is rented landlord. The mayor hs | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
actually looking at this through something called the housing | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
covenant, where he's setting the conditions for more rental housing | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
to come onto the market. But regulated in a way to provide | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
security and quality that Londoners deserve. | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Do send us your views on this and the other housing storids we'll | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
You can get in touch via em`il or join in conversation on Twitter. | :06:12. | :06:23. | |
That's all from me. I will wish you a very good night and we will have a | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
look at the weather, which seems to be hot and getting hotter. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
That's true. Yes, hello, good evening. Today we were 27 ddgrees | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
evening. Today we were 27 degrees again that. Makes it the eighth day | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
in a row that somewhere in the London area has got at least 27 | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
which takes us into the 80s Fahrenheit. Staying warm for the | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
next few days, plenty of drx weather next few days, plenty of dry weather | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
around, but there will be the odd risk of a shower. In fact, we start | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
with the risk tomorrow morning. risk of a shower. In fact, we start | :06:52. | :06:52. | |
with the risk tomorrow mornhng. We with the risk tomorrow mornhng. We | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
have cloud moving towards us from the east. It does give us a risk of | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
some showers. Early showers, pretty light ones at first. But in the | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
afternoon, you could see a sharp one, especially towards the south of | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
London. Most place as voiding them, staying dry. Bit of a breezd | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
tomorrow. It won't feel as hot as it has. And temperatures are wdll up in | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
has. And temperatures are well up in double figures overnight. There say | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
bit of a breeze. On Thursdax, out bit of a breeze. On Thursday, out | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
towards the west, eventuallx, towards the west, eventually, | :07:24. | :07:24. | |
there'll be the risk of somd there'll be the risk of some | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
showers, but most places ard dry. I showers, but most places ard dry. I | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
will leave you with the outlook: Good evening. I know some of us | :07:30. | :07:41. | |
could do with a drop of rain for the gardens, and the hot weather doesn't | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
suit us all, but it's within a warm one today. 20 degrees in many parts | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
of Scotland and Northern Ireland, the warmest day of the year so far. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
It's been a hot one further south too. 30 degrees along the south | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
coast of England. There's plenty more warmth to come through the rest | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
of this week. A balmy night. Most of us dry. Low cloud and mist off the | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
North Sea into central and eastern parts of the UK. The odd shower | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
possible across the west of Northern Ireland, otherwise dry and humid. | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Temperatures in the midteens to start the day. Whoa might see the | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
odd shower across eastern England early on. Most of us is dry. By the | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
afternoon, we could see an isolated downpour. Further west, I must | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
stress they will be isolated. Mauve of us will avoid | :08:35. | :08:36. |