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said it had been bought by an anonymous bidder. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
Good evening. Helena Farrell was a troubled teenager, | :00:12. | :00:12. | |
failed by the professionals who should have helped her. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
An official report by Cumbria's Safeguarding Children | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Board says her case and the failings identified mirror a similar tragedy | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Our Chief Reporter Dave Guest has more. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Yesterday, a coroner concluded that 15`year`old | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Helena Farrell killed herself, but he couldn't be sure she meant to. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Today, a report outlined the shortcomings | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
of a system that failed to protect her. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Cumbria's Safeguarding Children Board said it was | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
"baffling" that professionals failed to recognise the mounting evidence | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
She told a teacher she had bulimia, she told | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
a school nurse she had been sexually assaulted, she took an overdose | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
But Cumbria's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS, took | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
The day after her first appointment, she was dead. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
We hope that Helena's story will inspire professionals and | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
non`professional people to reflect on how we all deal with young people | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
In fact, today's report says school`based professionals failed to | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
recognise the escalating evhdence that Helena was at real risk | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
of suicide and it says that Childhood Adolescent Mental Health | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Service was guilty of poor practice, had a lack of structure | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
and was considered not fit for purpose, even by its own staff. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
But one charity, Papyrus, which specialises in preventing | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
adolescent suicide, says such problems are not unique to Cumbria. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
This is a problem for the whole of the country. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
More and more young people `re being faced with long waiting lists | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
But she wasn't the first person to be let down by the service. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Three years before she died, ten`year`old Harry Hucknall took his | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
A safeguarding board recognhsed significant failings | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
We did make changes following the sad death of Harry, but what we | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
now recognise is those changes were not far`reaching enough. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
We need to make wider changds and have significant investlent | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Those investments include t`king on additional specialist st`ff | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
in the hope that people such as Helena can be seen more prolptly. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
The Rochdale MP Simon Dancztk says the former Conservative Homd | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Secretary, Leon Brittan, should make public what he knew about | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
allegations of paedophiles operating in Westminster in the 1980s. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Mr Danczuk was appearing before the Commons Home Aff`irs | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
Committee in relation to thd former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Our political editor Arif Ansari sent this report from Westmhnster. | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Today Simon Danczuk shifted the focus on Cyril Smith from what he | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
may have done in Rochdale to what he may have done here at Westmhnster, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
with hints of a cover`up among leading politicians, in particular, | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Mr Danczuk said that Cyril Smith may have been part of a network | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
of people, protecting each other. He said that Cyril Smith had abused | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
children at a guesthouse in South London with other | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
In neither case did Mr Danczuk name any of these individuals. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
He did say that back in the 198 s, the Littleborough MP Geoffrdy | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Dickens had written a dossidr of these politicians, | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
and handed it into the then Home Secretary Sir Leon Brittan and | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Mr Danczuk wanted to know what they had done with that informathon. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
I do think it would be helpful for Sir Leon Brittan to share | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
his knowledge of how he dealt with these allegations that were made | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Well, that's an interesting questhon. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
We know that it arrived at the Home Office, but we don't know where | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
It has also emerged today that Cyril Smith attempted to put some pressure | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Two freelance journalists working for the corporation were looking | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
into certain MPs' private lhves and Cyril Smith wrote to thd then | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Director General Charles Curran saying he wanted to be assured that | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
"your expenditure is careful, wise and useful," hints there, | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
He also wrote to the then Home Secretary Merlyn Rees saying | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
that he wanted him to ensurd the BBC wasn't simply muck`raking. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
It's not clear what Cyril Slith s motivation was here, | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
because he was not one of those being investigated, although he may | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
have feared that he could h`ve been pulled into that, perhaps. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
One other development here, and that is that Simon Danczuk told | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the committee today that Greater Manchester Police are going | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
to arrest people imminently as their investigation into what | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
The former Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council w`s paid | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
more than ?400,000 when she retired last year. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Details of Jill Stannard's pay`off have just come to lhght | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The County Council says it's saving more than half`a`million potnds | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
a year through restructuring, but says reducing staff numbers is | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Thousands of tram passengers in Greater Manchester are f`cing | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
a second day of travel disrtption after weekend engineering works | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
There are no services running through Victoria again todax. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Replacement buses have been provided. | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Metrolink and Network Rail have apologised. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
There are fresh warnings thhs evening about the dangers | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
of quicksand in Morecambe B`y after a teenage boy became trapped | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
The 13`year`old had been on a fishing trip with his family | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
He was pulled to safety by fire fighters who were | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
The rescue was captured by an amateur cameraman. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
It must have been absolutelx terrifying for the lad, there must | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
have been times when he thotght I'm not going to get out of here. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
And it wasn't long before the tide was turning, | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
That's it from me, thanks for staying up to watch. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
Well, it has been another very lovely day. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Tomorrow could be even bettdr, make the most of it if you can, because | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
through Thursday and Friday, we have some wet weather, and by thd | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
But back to the moment to h`nd, our evening showers have didd away | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
and it should be quiet from here on through the night. | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Rurally, there could be a p`tch of mist when you get up first thing | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
tomorrow morning and the ovdrnight temperatures, in the countrxside, | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
eight or nine, for towns and cities, it is warm again, | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
temperatures 13 and 14 degrdes for the most part. Tomorrow, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
a very nice summer's day, plenty of sunshine from the word go. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
In fact, for many places, through the morning, there will be | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
The breeze is light initially, it changes direction | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
as you go through the day and once you get past lunchtime | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
you will see a little bit of fair`weather cloud floating around, | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Your national weather forec`st follows, but I leave you with | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
the outlook for the next few days. Good night. | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
football again. The temperature in S?o Paulo was much the same as we | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
had in Glasgow and Bristol. Here, temperatures are set to climb higher | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
in the next few days. Tonight, rather than Brazil, it's more likely | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
to be chilly. In rural areas we re looking at low single figures for a | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
while. Clear skies overnight. It is setting us up for a sunny start to | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
Wednesday. There will be changes coming in from the north-west. The | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
breeze will freshen | :08:11. | :08:11. |