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Ashley Talbot died after being hit by a minibus outside school - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
a coroner says lessons must be learned. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Health officials speak of a recruitment crisis in the NHS, | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
costing health boards millions of pounds. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
And why Wales' biggest council plans to suspend the right to buy | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
The coroner investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy who was run | :00:22. | :00:42. | |
over in the grounds of his school said the inquest has identified | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Ashley Talbot was struck by a school minibus as he was leaving | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Maesteg Comprehensive in December 2014. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
The jury returned a verdict of accidental death and the coroner | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
will now make a report about the design and construction of | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
15-year-old Ashley was struck by a minibus | :01:00. | :01:11. | |
Police say the driver, PE teacher Christopher Brooks, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
He was driving at 14 to 17 mph and would have had less | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
But the inquest heard about wider safety concerns. | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
One bus driver said this was an accident waiting to happen. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
Several children described near misses which they had witnessed. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
The coroner said the investigation had revealed matters of grave | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
concern and he will now be preparing a report on the design, construction | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
Reacting to the verdict, the solicitor of the family | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
No child should die in a road traffic accident on school premises. | :01:53. | :02:00. | |
In schools, more than anywhere else, the safety of children should be | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
This school was constructed through a PFI initiative. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
It is clear from the evidence that we have heard in court | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
that the staff of the school were never satisfied with the design | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
And that they struggled, then, to provide a secure | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
and safe environment, given the design restrictions | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Following the hearing, the local authority issued | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
a statement saying improvements have already been carried out | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
at the school and a review of safety in all schools in the county borough | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
The chair of governors paid tribute to Ashley as a popular pupil | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
and said the governors are satisfied the school is now safe. | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
We complied with all the health and safety | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
recommendations that were brought in following the terrible accident. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
We believe now that the school is certainly a very safe place. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Ashley's mother has been too ill to attend the inquest. | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
They have welcomed the ongoing health and safety investigation and | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
They also plan to campaign for school safety in | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
Failures to recruit doctors and nurses are costing Welsh health | :03:22. | :03:31. | |
boards millions of pounds and today Assembly Members were told | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
there's now a recruitment crisis in the Welsh NHS. | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
In North Wales the amount of money being spent on agency staff this | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
year matches the entire ?30,000 overspend of Betsi | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
year matches the entire ?30,000 overspend of | :03:50. | :03:50. | |
We are told our hospitals have rarely been busier, | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
pressures rarely greater, the squeeze on cash rarely tighter. | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
But at a time when the Welsh NHS needs every penny it can get, | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
spending on agency staff to fill empty posts is spiralling. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
According to some critics, there is a recruitment crisis. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
In north Wales, as an example, there are 177 full-time nursing vacancies. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
There's a shortage of 79 health care assistants. | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
Ward rosters are going only 85% filled. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
And that's despite a recruitment drive. | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
We asked to be allowed into the hospital here in Bangor | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
today to speak to doctors and nurses about recruitment, but that | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
One, an experienced sister, who didn't want to be filmed, | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
told me that recruitment problems were down to the | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Places like this are extremely tough to work in, she said, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
Outside our cities, most Welsh hospitals struggle for staff. | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
Today at the Senate, Assembly Members were | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
Why, for example, do many medical students leave | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
We have recently run a survey of all of those trainees coming | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
to interview with us to find out exactly what are those key factors. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
And the vast majority have indicated that it's important that they have | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
got somewhere where their friends are, their family is and it's | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
a geographical location that it is known to them. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
I was talking to a number of students thinking | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
of going into medicine recently in my constituency. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
They were all young, single, you know, young men and women, 18, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
19-years-old, who couldn't wait to get out. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
And said, you know, they've spent their whole lives here, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
they wanted to go and see the big wide world. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
And the failure to recruit is costing money. | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
This year, the Ysbyty Clwyd health board expects to be | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
in the red to the tune of more than ?30 million. | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
And that's similar to the amount it was spent on agency staff | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
If you could fill posts, could you get rid of a big | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
I think it would be a massive help if we could reduce the agency | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
spend and we are working towards that every day. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
We have some rigorous plans in place to control | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
the spend on agency staff, both from the medical point of view | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
We need to recognise that there will always be a need | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
in certain circumstances to employ agency clinical staff, to make sure | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
A safe service, then, but also a cheaper service. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
This has now become a major challenge for the Welsh NHS. | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Meanwhile, the number of patients waiting more | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
and Emergency departments in Wales has risen by a quarter. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Just over 4,000 people spent 12 hours in A last month, | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
The Welsh Government said the rise is "unacceptable" and pledged | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
to work with NHS Wales "to achieve improvements for patients." | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
A man from Tredegar has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
accused of downloading so-called Islamic State manuals. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
23-year-old Nathan Saunders is charged with five counts | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
of possessing a record likely to be useful to a person committing | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
A woman from Swansea who claimed she'd been imprisoned | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
in her father's flat in Saudi Arabia is still waiting for a face-to-face | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
21-year-old Amina Al-Jeffrey said her father locked her up | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
because "she kissed a guy", an allegation he denies. | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Last Summer, Mohammad Al-Jeffrey was ordered to facilitate his | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
daughter's return to the UK, but she remains in Saudi Arabia. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
A High Court judge has revealed her lawyer has yet to be | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
Tenants in Cardiff could become the latest in Wales to lose | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
the right to buy their council houses as the authority aims | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
to tackle the city's growing housing need. | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
The Council's decision to suspend the Right to Buy policy for five | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
years will need to be rubber-stamped by the Welsh Government who plan | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
to introduce a law that would amount to a Wales-wide ban | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
In March, they'll have been married 60 years. | :08:11. | :08:31. | |
For almost 40 of them, they've lived in this former council | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
When we came here it was nothing like it is now and then we were hit | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
-- here about a month and decided we'll buy it. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
We feel proud that we both came from, I came from a council house | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
in Ely, Harry's from the docks and we're out here | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
So, I'm quite pleased with both of us. | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
The Fords would have benefited from a discount of up to 50% | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
when the policy was first introduced in the 1980s. | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
These days, social housing tenants in Wales can get out of a maximum | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
of ?8,000 knocked off the value of their property. | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Last year, 359 properties in Wales were bought under | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
the Right to Buy scheme, out of a total of more than 200,000 | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Had we not had the Right to Buy, we wouldn't have a waiting list | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
today and people on the waiting list are in significant housing need. | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
So what we want to be able to do, we want to protect a very important | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
asset for families to come, now and into the future. | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Cardiff Council's requests will need to be accepted | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Anglesey, Carmarthenshire and Swansea have already been given | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
permission to suspend the Right to Buy policy in their areas. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
But other applications are still being considered. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
However, next month, government ministers for proposing | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
a new law in the assembly that would amount to a Wales-wide | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
It would bring the curtain down on a flagship Thatcherite policy | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
driven by her desire to create a nation of homeowners. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
This just deflects attention from the huge national need | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
We should be proud of the Right to Buy and we should | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
encourage its use in the future but we certainly need | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
to build more homes, that's what the Welsh government | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
We really do need investment in new homes. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Housing associations are a big part of that and are committed | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
to building social homes that are needed up and down Wales | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
and the Right to Buy is one part of that picture. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
It stops us losing homes that we desperately need | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
but actually the focus needs to be on building new homes. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
But as far as Shirley and Henry are concerned, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
it afforded them the opportunity to turn the house into a home. | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
He's had an incredible week, but the dream is over | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
The teenager from Ebbw Vale lost to world number four Judd Trump | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
But while Jackson's Welsh Open is over, one Welshman | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
remains in the tournament - Lee Walker beat Graeme Dott to make | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
Let's see what the weather has in store. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
Derek's here and is it a little milder? | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
We're little bit milder, yes. 10 Celsius this afternoon. And, daytime | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
temperatures will continue to exceed the mid-February average over the | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
next few days, typically ten to 12 Celsius. Tonight, some rain for | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
parts of mid and North Wales. That will gradually ease and clear. | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
Elsewhere it is looking dry. A few gaps in the cloud and a mild night. | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Generally dry tomorrow morning. A bit misty and places first thing. It | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
should writing up in Monmouth, a little sunshine. Across the rest of | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
the UK a warm front through England and Scotland will bring spots of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
drizzle. Some sunshine in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Many areas dry but | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
some pockets of rain in the West later in the day. Temperatures on | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the mild side generally speaking. Nine in Glasgow, 12 Celsius in | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
London. Close to home, dry and brighter in the north and east | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
tomorrow afternoon but how will increase. Some rain spreading from | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
the West and look at those temperatures, ten to 12 Celsius with | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
a south-easterly breeze. Tomorrow night a bit damp in places, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
otherwise dry. Enough moisture for a few mist and fog patches to form. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Against a mile. Mist and fog patches on Saturday will live. A lot of dry | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
weather, fairly cloudy, with a few sunny intervals. However, a cold | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
front will move through the day. It stays on the mild side on Sunday. | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
Again a few spots of drizzle, otherwise mostly dry. Hopefully a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
little bit of sunshine. In the next week, half term, mild, breezy a | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
little rain, it may turn colder later in the week with showers. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
We're back with updates from around 6.25am in the morning | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
But that's Wales Today, from all of us on the programme, goodnight. | :13:21. | :13:26. |