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In Look East tonight, failing pupils and losing money. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
The Academy trust behind nine Northamptonshire schools pulls out. | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The museums and universities worried over future links with Europe. | :00:12. | :00:23. | |
And a cold start to the day tomorrow. They will have all the | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
details later. They took on nine | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
academies in our region, overseeing the education | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
of thousands of pupils. But following a damning financial | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
review, the Education Fellowship Trust has handed control | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
of the schools back It is the first time an academies | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
trust has failed on this scale. Equals x + 24, because it was | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
the number, plus 24. At the academy in Wellingborough, | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
classes teaching today But for this school, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
and eight others in Northants, All given up and soon to be | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
taken away from their People are talking about | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
changes that will be made. Ther is absolutely no | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
changes being made here. We have got fantastic staff, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
very supportive parents, brilliant Nothing will change. | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
We will just carry on as normal. Maths here adds up, but the trust's | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
finances were unsustainable. In the report, some expenditure | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
irregular or improper. ?1,000 being spent on 350 | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
designer Christmas cards. ?630 going on 60 corporate umbrellas | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
and ?20,000 being spent When it came to recruitment, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the report found family members were being employed | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
without interview. The communications director's | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
job was unadvertised, coming with a ?70,000 | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
salary and benefits. Founded just five years ago, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the Education Fellowship Trust has already been the subject | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
of two reports into their They say they requested | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
the transfer of their academies because of the financial constraints | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
on the education sector. They say they want to ensure | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
a smooth and timely transfer that minimises the impact on pupils, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
staff and parents. At one of its primary schools, | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
this from parents tonight. If really comes down | :02:29. | :02:38. | |
to resources and capability. If they have the capability to run | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
the school efficiently, It does not really matter | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
who is is running the school, as long they do it well. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
That is the important thing. It is a bit worrying, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
as a parent, to make sure the children get the | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
funding they should get. Unions say the trust should have | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
been monitored more closely. What is particularly worrying is the | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
Department for Education did not get a grip on this trust | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
and actually prevent them, or put in, some sort of | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
external mechanism, to control the way in | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
which they were spending money. The problem to solve now - | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
finding a new trust, following the failure | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
of the Education Fellowship. Expanding the academy system | :03:17. | :03:36. | |
has been a key policy Earlier, I asked Wellingborough MP | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
Peter Bone, if this situation proves If you look across | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the piece, academies are outperforming local | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
authority schools. So, they are actually improving | :03:51. | :03:51. | |
education for children. What has gone wrong in this instance | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
is that I think we put in an academy which does not have a real | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
connection with the area. What we should be encouraging is | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
smaller, local academies to expand. A report three years ago found | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
lots of financial irregularities. In 2016, things had | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
not improved much, bit it was the trust themselves that | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
went to the Department and asked for their funding to be withdrawn. | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
The department did not go to them. They are not being properly | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
scrutinised, are they? I really do not think | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
you can claim that. All schools are very | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
heavily scrutinised, All schools are very | :04:18. | :04:18. | |
heavily scrutinised, Whether the schools | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
were handed back by the trust or whether the government forced | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
that to happen, clearly, it was not going to be | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
tolerated any longer. But it has been three years | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
since we learnt of the financial problems, so why has it taken | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
so long for government If this had been a local | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
authority school, the exact same process would have | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
been followed, except, you cannot get rid of a local | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
authority, whereas, in this case, you can get rid of an academy | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
and replace it with another. Will there be better scutiny | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
of the way any new academy All schools, whether local authority | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
or academy of free schools, are all inspected by Ofsted | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
to the same rigorous standard. We see schools being put | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
into special measures all the time. In this case, the academy was just | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
not improving enough. I just want the best education | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
for the people here and I think I just want the best education | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
for the people here and I think So, I regard it as positive news. | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
Here are not negative news. A couple from Northampton have been | :05:40. | :05:51. | |
found guilty of 84 charges relating to sex and drugs | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
offences against children. Joan Taylor, who is 43, | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
and 47-year-old Nicholas Taylor Stuart Ratcliffe has | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
been following the case This investigation was the largest | :05:59. | :06:16. | |
of its kind ever carried out by Northamptonshire Police. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
For ten years, Nicholas Taylor and his wife Joan committed the most | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Between 1996 and 2006, mostly at their home in Briar Hill, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
children were given Class A drugs, after which they were assaulted, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
sexually abused and, in some cases, raped. | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
Today, they were convicted of 84 charges against ten children. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
Speaking outside court, Northamptonshire Police said they | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
were pleased with the convictions and that Nicholas Taylor had shown | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
There was nothing nice about him. Throughout the entire time of this | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
investigation and every engagement we had with him, | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
he was aggressive and violent. He was just a deplorable individual. | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
And he demonstrated that behaviour to his victims | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Clearly dominating them and abusing them - sexually, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
physically and in every possible way - for his own gratification. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
So, I am delighted with what has been said today. | :06:54. | :07:06. | |
At the same time he was abusing children and supplying them with | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
drugs, he was presenting himself as a reformed criminal. | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
After an earlier prison sentence for burglary and drug offences, | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
he regularly gave interviews with the local media | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
about his new so-called crime-free life. | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
and, perhaps, most surprisingly, he was also a guest speaker | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
at Northamptonshire Police headquarters, where, ironically, | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
he spoke about about ways to reduce crime. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
For the last ten years, the European Research Council has | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
given millions of pounds of funding for studies across our region. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
And not just for scientific projects - the arts and humanities | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Now there are fears Brexit could leave a significant funding gap. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Treasures from India here at this new exhibition | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
With objects from around the world on display, | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
it requires collaboration with experts from abroad and also | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
A recent grant from the European Research | :08:00. | :08:12. | |
Council for a similar project here was for more than ?1.6 million. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
European research funds have been really crucial, in enabling us to | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
embark on ambitious, comparative projects. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
It would leave a huge hole if researchers here cannot access | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
This is one of eight Cambridgeshire university museums, | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
They are also used for teaching and supported by academic research. | :08:33. | :08:44. | |
Over the past three years, Cambridge University has offered the | :08:45. | :09:01. | |
highly successful Polish studies course mixing language and culture. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
The enthusiasm for the language and the culture and it has led to great | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Modern language experience also work with experience abroad and relying | :09:09. | :09:27. | |
on the European funding. The structure is whether employees these | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
are dope the future. Collaboration will undoubtedly continue, but there | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
is no one uncertainty about the future. | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
Northamptonshire Police has asked the Crown Prosecution Service | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
to consider charges over General Election expenses in | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
The Conservative MP Michael Ellis has not responded. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
In total, 12 forces have sent files to the CPS, | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
relating to Conservative candidates' expenses incurred | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
It comes after complaints about the way Conservative | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
"battle bus" visits to constituencies had been recorded | :09:56. | :09:56. | |
Northamptonshire Police says this is a "live inquiry" | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
That is all from the late news team here at Look East. | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
We will leave you with Alex and the weather. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Good evening. E colder start to the day tomorrow. It will bring some | :10:08. | :10:23. | |
rain, but then clear sky falling. Overnight temperatures for- five | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Celsius. This is the pressure pattern pushing from the North West. | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
The wind will pick up during the course of the day. A bright start, | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
but rather chilly. The chance of some rain coming the north the | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
region. High temperatures of around 9-10dC. The National weather coming | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
up, but no here is the outlook. A wet start to the weekend. Steam | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
roller double figures. Through the weekend | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
there will be rain around, most occurring overnight. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Good evening, quite a range of whether an offer earlier today in | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
the north and north-west of the UK quite a lot of showers around, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
lively ones, little bit of sunshine in between. The best of the sunshine | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
to be found at the other end of the country towards the south-east in | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Kent, lovely picture here from one of our weather watchers. A range of | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
temperatures, too. 17 degrees for a few, on the other side of the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
weather front, only seven or 8 degrees. Showers in the north and | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
west. The fresh air will win out over tonight coming in behind the | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
cold front, which isn't bringing much rain but it will bring some, | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
clearing | :11:42. | :11:42. |